Who Let the Dogs Out (Lambrini Girls album)

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Who Let the Dogs Out
Lambrini Girls Who Let The Dogs Out.jpg
Studio album by
Lambrini Girls
Released10 January 2025
RecordedApril 2024
StudioEcho Zoo (Eastbourne) [1]
Genre
Length29:25
Label City Slang
Producer
  • Daniel Fox
  • Lambrini Girls
Lambrini Girls chronology
You're Welcome
(2023)		Who Let the Dogs Out
(2025)
Singles from Who Let the Dogs Out
  1. "Company Culture"
    Released: September 2024
  2. "Big Dick Energy"
    Released: October 2024
  3. "Love"
    Released: November 2024

Who Let the Dogs Out is the debut studio album by British punk rock band Lambrini Girls, released on 10 January 2025 by City Slang Records. The album was written and recorded in April 2024 in two bursts over ten days during breaks in their tour, the second of which was much less regimented than the first, and was preceded the singles "Company Culture", "Big Dick Energy", and "Love". Who Let the Dogs Out comprised ten tracks about social issues and then "Cuntology 101", for which a video was released. The album received widespread acclaim from critics and charted at No. 16 on the UK Albums Chart.

Contents

Background

Lambrini Girls released the EP You're Welcome in May 2023, which charted at No. 29 on the Official Record Store Chart. [2] The EP was the last release to feature Catt Jack, who had left earlier that year. [3] The band had became known for abrasive punk songs about social issues such as misogyny, gender-critical feminism, and homophobia, [4] and had a reputation for actioning their beliefs, having threatened to "scrap" any gender-critical feminists "any day, in person, with my fists" in 2023 and having pulled out of The Great Escape Festival in 2024 over their pro-Palestine stance. [5]

They wrote their debut album, Who Let the Dogs Out, in Oxford in April 2024 [6] during two bursts over ten days during breaks in their tour. The first half of their sessions followed a strict structure of waking up, going for a run, making breakfast, and then writing from about midday to around 7 or 8pm, but they found this too regimented, [7] so for the second half, they ordered in massive amounts of alcohol and took breaks at will. The album was then recorded with Daniel Fox of Gilla Band and mixed by Seth Manchester, who had produced works by Mdou Moctar, Battles, and Model/Actriz. [8]

Promotion and release

In September 2024, they released "Company Culture", a sarcastic track written about toxic workplace environments. [9] By the following month, they had signed to City Slang; that month, they announced Who Let the Dogs Out and released "Big Dick Energy", a track about toxic masculinity [10] accompanied by a lyric video containing the Urban Dictionary definition of the phrase "big dick energy", messages they had received on Hinge, and shots of the band performing. [11] The month after that, they released "Love", a track about toxic relationships. [12]

They released Who Let the Dogs Out on 10 January 2025; [13] the album took its name from an inside joke involving the song of that name by Baha Men. [4] The album includes many diatribes about social issues; "Bad Apple" and "Nothing Tastes As Good As It Feels" rail against police brutality and diet culture, [14] while "You're Not from Around Here", "No Homo", and "Filthy Rich Nepo Baby" address gentrification, homophobia, and nepotism [15] and "Special Different" is about neurodiversity. [4] The album contains one interlude, "Scarcity is Fake (Communist Propaganda)", which comprises a speech by Stokely Carmichael. [16]

They promoted the album with a music video for closing track "Cuntology 101" posted shortly after the album's release. [17] The song contained 32 uses of the word "cunt" [15] and a "C-U-N-T" cheerleading chant [14] and describes many things as "cunty" such as "learning how to let go", "sensing boundaries", "respecting others", "having cum on my shirt", [18] "having an autistic meltdown", "shagging behind some bins", "doing a poo at your friend’s house", [15] and "stealing shit from chain stores". [19] Lunny wrote the song as a palate cleanser, as she wanted to write something celebrating herself, [4] and attempted to teach herself FL Studio for the occasion. [20] In an interview with the Official Charts Company shortly after release, the band described the album as "a party for pissed off, gay, angry sluts". [21]

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 83/100 [22]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [23]
Clash 9/10 [24]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [25]
Far Out Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [26]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [27]
Kerrang! 4/5 [28]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [29]
Pitchfork 7.3/10 [30]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [31]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [32]

Who Let the Dogs Out received widespread acclaim from critics. According to review aggregator Metacritic, the album holds a score of 83 out of 100 based on 17 critic reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [22] The album received positive reviews from The Guardian, [15] When the Horn Blows, [33] Pitchfork, [14] The Soundboard Reviews, [34] Beats Per Minute, [35] DIY, [36] The Arts Desk, [37] Kerrang!, [38] Clash, [5] Rolling Stone, [18] Dork, [39] NME, [40] AllMusic , [41] Narc, [42] Classic Rock, [43] Louder, [44] The Skinny, [45] and MusicOMH , [46] though negative reviews came from Far Out [47] and Sputnikmusic . [48] Initially forecast to chart at No. 3 on the UK Albums Chart, [49] the album instead made that week's listing at No. 16. [50]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Phoebe Lunny, Lilly Maciera-Bosgelmez and Jack Looker, except "Big Dick Energy", written by Phoebe Lunny and Catt Jack.

No.TitleLength
1."Bad Apple"2:32
2."Company Culture"3:02
3."Big Dick Energy"4:16
4."No Homo"2:27
5."Nothing Tastes As Good As It Feels"2:56
6."You're Not from Around Here"2:23
7."Scarcity is Fake (Communist Propaganda)"0:17
8."Filthy Rich Nepo Baby"2:34
9."Special Different"2:55
10."Love"3:40
11."Cuntology 101"2:18
Total length:29:25

Personnel

Lambrini Girls

Additional contributors

Charts

Chart performance for Who Let the Dogs Out
Chart (2025)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [51] 175
Scottish Albums (OCC) [52] 3
UK Albums (OCC) [53] 16
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [54] 2
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [55] 1

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