Musically, the call for Dionysian insurrection from these Furies of Brighton is certainly not revolutionary. We can trace the family tree starting from the MC5 or the Sex Pistols up to the informal Riot Grrrl movement of the 90s. But, if the style is not new, the electricity of their guitars and their vehement vociferations are enough to make any eardrum deliciously bleed.
Young firebrands Lambrini Girls appeared on the UK scene in 2023 with the EP You’re Welcome, including the single Help me I’m Gay, distant cousin of Touch me I’m Sick by Mudhoney, set the tone. These feminist, progressive, bisexual, left-wing activists, etc. are very angry. We could stop there. In fact, the duo naturally ticks all the boxes of punk wokism, moving on their first album from an anti-patriarchy manifesto to a pro-queer declaration or an anti-British bourgeoisie rant. Everyone, starting with the famous “white male”, takes his place in delightful electric cacophonies that rarely exceed three minutes. But, while Lilly Macieira’s heavy bass saturates the space, it’s the way Phoebe Lunny projects her voice as if she wants to spit in your face, moving from feverish talking-singing to ferocious growls, that marks the spirits. We inevitably think of Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods, to whom the duo seems to pay homage in the Cuntology 101 which closes the album on a synthetic touch. The two Lambrini Girls could take up the famous slogan that Woody Guthrie wrote on his guitar in the 1940s: “This machine kills fascists.” But, if nothing says that they will finally succeed in ridding us of all kinds of reactions, we can however trust them to make them deaf by smashing them against their wall of sound.
Lambrini Girls Who Let the Dogs Out (City Slang)
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