Lambrini Girls
Who Let The Dogs Out


2.5
average

Review

by DadKungFu STAFF
January 16th, 2025 | 25 replies


Release Date: 01/10/2025 | Tracklist

Review Summary: All the energy in the world can’t hide how lazy this feels

Amyl and the Sniffers meets Idles is about the size of this package, except it’s not as fun as the former and not as clever as the latter. Give each song ten seconds and you know what the rest of it’s going to sound like, put 3 minutes into the album and you’ve got the whole picture. The sloganeering’s about as puerile as it gets; the intention of course isn’t to be actually funny, the intention is that you laugh because you get the joke. But when every track is built around the same barked-out buzzwords and hammer-to-the-skull delivery, the joke wears thin fast. It’s punk rock as meme culture: all surface, no subversion, an endless loop of shouting the same punchline until it loses all meaning.

If Lambrini Girls have a bright spot it’s the undeniable energy of their attack. This band is loud, this band is furious, this band has all the righteous indignation in the world. The riffs have a delightful crunch to them, a roaring garage-rock quality that is the lifeblood of most of this album and Phoebe Lunny is a sufficiently and effectively strident blaze of vitality in her attack. If I’d stuck to just a listen or two of Bad Apple or No Homo, I’d be tempted to think this was a good album. But underneath the fight-montage attack, the songwriting feels about as lazy as it can possibly get. I’m not looking for math-rock bridges or string sections in my garage band or anything, but there’s a difference between walking down a well-trod path and wallowing.

The intention of the lyrics is to be confrontational, blunt and if I have to read the word “unapologetic” in connection with this kind of thing one more time I’m going to scream. The gamut of subjects is run through multiple times over: workplace sexism, gentrification, body standards, all worthy subjects expounded on in the most brain dead manner possible. All the lyrics attempt to appropriate the terminology of the terminally online in a manner that already feels dated and will no doubt be more wince-inducing as the years go by. Lambrini Girls seem to think that speaking in the terms of someone with a severe head injury equates to blunt confrontation. Listen to Eve Libertine and Joy de Vivre for just a minute, just sixty seconds worth of time and you’ll find all the confrontation of Lambrini Girls with a wit and inciveness that this band has zero grasp of. Shout out that bad things are bad all you want, no discourse, no plan, no action, just keep convincing yourself you’re radical because you know you’re on the right side and you’re able to yell it repeatedly.

Reading the definition of “gentrification” from a dictionary doesn’t really stick it to the man as much as Lambrini Girls seem to think. Nor is it in any sense clever or inspiring towards…anything. Maybe it’s a move that just lays bare the paper-thin posturing of punk rock. If so, it’s a message that’s about 50 years late and one Lambrini Girls obviously didn’t intend. What’s left is an album that desperately wants to be a rallying cry but feels more like an echo chamber—conflating self-congratulation with rebellion, and believing that having the right opinion loud enough is a substitute for having something to say.



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Comments:Add a Comment 
DadKungFu
Staff Reviewer
January 16th 2025


5739 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

I am brimming with positive energy

BlackLlama
January 16th 2025


2195 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I have this rated slightly higher than you, but agree overall. "What’s left is an album that desperately wants to be a rallying cry but feels more like an echo chamber" - that's well stated.

Odal
Staff Reviewer
January 16th 2025


2654 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

I pretty much agree with you, but the energy gives this a little more positive tilt for me. Good review, brother

DePlazz
January 16th 2025


4808 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Enjoyed this

SomeCallMeTim
January 16th 2025


4979 Comments


BlackLlama: "Party Music for Gay Angry Sluts"

YAY


DadKungFu: "Amyl and the Sniffers meets Idles"

NOOO

tyman128
Staff Reviewer
January 16th 2025


4687 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

"Special Different" is actually sick, I love that guitar riff

Fun energy, probably won't be coming back to this much at all, great review tho

fogza
Contributing Reviewer
January 17th 2025


10156 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

This one should hit harder but the lyrics don't work for me

OldMystic
January 17th 2025


23 Comments


I actually quite like it now, scratches a certain itch.

ToSmokMuzyki
January 17th 2025


13528 Comments


*takes off socks* me, i let the dogs out

IsisScript80
January 17th 2025


1630 Comments


Only heard stuff from them that gets aired on the radio, but I get the impression that this review is on-point. Excellent piece of writing, DadKungFu.


DadKungFu
Staff Reviewer
January 17th 2025


5739 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Pitchfork doesn't actually seem to love it that much thnx Isis ur good people

artificialbox
Contributing Reviewer
January 17th 2025


3205 Comments


“Shout out that bad things are bad all you want, no discourse, no plan, no action, just keep convincing yourself you’re radical because you know you’re on the right side and you’re able to yell it repeatedly.”

lol I love you Dad

JerseyJimmy
January 19th 2025


242 Comments


the way you describe this really brings War on Women to mind. that is not a good thing.

Sinternet
Contributing Reviewer
January 19th 2025


26838 Comments


you mean another band that fucking rules

DadKungFu
Staff Reviewer
January 19th 2025


5739 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Kathleen Hannah rules



Mia Zapata (RIP) rules



IAmEveresttt
January 21st 2025


3 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Shocker. A bunch of men who this was written about are complaining about the lyrics. Everything musically about this is fantastic, and you’re only composing because you’re who it’s written about.

DadKungFu
Staff Reviewer
January 21st 2025


5739 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Eve Libertine rules





Joy de Vivre rules

gabba
January 21st 2025


1952 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Poly Styrene rules

Poison Ivy rules

Kim Gordon rules



AdamMontanari
January 22nd 2025


30 Comments


I don't know why, but every time I see their name it registers as "Lamborghini Girls" in my brain

artificialbox
Contributing Reviewer
January 22nd 2025


3205 Comments


I just had the unfortunate experience of having “Cuntology 101” pop up on my IG feed. Amazing lyricism. “Doing a poo at your friends house” “Cunty!” This has to be satire



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