Photo by Harv Frost

Artist: Lambrini Girls, the duo of vocalist and guitarist Phoebe Lunny and bassist Lilly Macieira

Location: Brighton, UK

Buzz: Typically, every year begins with a new band out of the UK who has an entire hype machine launching them hard, and if there is anything we as listeners should know by now, it’s that each of these bands should be approached with some degree of hesitation. For every black midi, there is a the Last Dinner Party after all (and is Wet Leg still a thing?) Lambrini Girls are a band that breaks through those delusions, and demandingly so at that. You probably already knew that if you’ve been paying attention to news cycles, as the noise-punk duo of Phoebe Lunny and Lilly Macieira were among the first to call out and pull out of the Great Escape Festival and SXSW over their partnerships with warmongering corporations.

They feed off rebuking (and ultimately, breaking) systems, and that is incredibly palpable on their debut album, Who Let The Dogs Out. Don’t let its cheeky title or its songs cute way of framing cuntiness fool you (although, compared to many a talk-shouty kind of British band, their biting humor is actually charmingly charismatic rather than dull…) The pair pulverize fast, crunchy crisp noise-punk riffs swaddled by punk-pop sing-alongs straight into your face from their collective ire on fire lit by sexism and misogyny, all of the ‘phobias, toxic masculinity, gentrification, and capitalism. Messy and fun at once, Lambrini Girls are deservedly the life of the party where destroying what tries to put you down is the ultimate form of protest.

Sound: Death From Self-Love 2025.

Recommended: “Bad Apple”, “You’re Not From Around Here”, and “Cuntology 101” from their newly-released debut album, Who Let The Dogs Out

Lambrini Girls’ Who Let The Dogs Out is available now on City Slang Records.