Lambrini Girls

When Lambrini Girls burst onto the scene at the start of the decade, they immediately made their colours clear: a confrontational tone, an openly embraced anger and a deliberate desire to rally the left while getting under the right's skin. Phoebe Lunny and Selin Macieira-Bo gelmez soon established themselves as the band that some - internet trolls, transphobes and other professional -isms - would have preferred never to see emerge, but that, deep down, we all needed. Armed with courage, humour and a particularly delightful sense of chaos on stage, they seemed to have reached a peak - infuriating every decent person along the way, as their venues kept filling up - just as the world appeared to be sliding into madness. And then the world got worse still. It is against this backdrop that No Refunds arrives, a darker, even more confrontational and above all more radical record. An album made for an era in which almost nothing seems to make sense any more.

That all these threats, each terrifying in its own way, should have emerged simultaneously in barely two years since the band's beginnings says a great deal about the necessity, for Lunny and Macieira-Bo gelmez, of setting this era to music. No Refunds thus represents a genuine change of scale for Lambrini Girls: their lyrics gain in confidence and maturity, while their music widens and becomes more ambitious, without losing any of its impact.