Into The Music
Lambrini Girls are back with “Cult of Celebrity,” their first new music in over a year, and it sounds exactly like you’d expect from a band whose entire mode of operation is pointing directly at the thing everyone is thinking and turning it up to eleven.
The Brighton duo of Phoebe Lunny and Selin Macieira have been building toward this for seven years of increasingly chaotic live shows that built a reputation before they even had an album. Who Let the Dogs Out, their debut full-length from January 2025, finally captured some of that energy on record and earned them a much wider audience. “Cult of Celebrity” is the first signal of where they go next, and the answer is angrier and sharper.
The song rips into the wealthy elite with the bluntness of a band that has never been interested in being subtle. The video, directed by Harv Frost, goes full theatrical devil imagery. The statement accompanying the release uses language that would get most PR departments filing incident reports. This is part of the point. Lambrini Girls have always understood that the directness of the message is the medium.
They’re about to play both weekends of Coachella, which is a genuinely strange and interesting placement for a band this abrasive. Whether that translates into something larger or remains a cult phenomenon is one of the more interesting questions in British punk right now. Either outcome seems like it would suit them.
A North American and Canadian tour runs through May 5, followed by dates across Europe. “Cult of Celebrity” is out now.