Lambrini Girls are a Brighton punk band whose music uses volume, sarcasm, and direct confrontation as tools rather than decoration. Built around Phoebe Lunny and Lilly Macieira, the group makes short, abrasive songs that take aim at misogyny, queerphobia, class contempt, corporate culture, and the exhausting performance of respectability. Early singles and the You're Welcome EP introduced their mix of blown-out bass, jagged guitar, shouted vocals, and comedy sharpened into anger. Who Let the Dogs Out pushed the band to a wider audience while keeping the same sense of attack, with songs that feel written for small rooms where the distance between stage and crowd collapses. Lambrini Girls are not metal, but they fit the accepted punk, post-punk, and noise-rock scope clearly. Their heaviness comes from friction: distorted low end, sneered phrasing, confrontational pacing, and the refusal to let discomfort stay polite. At their best, Lambrini Girls sound like a band turning social exhaustion into a weapon, where every joke has teeth and every chorus is built to kick back.

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