I'm always intrigued by how American sounds get reflected back across the Atlantic. Brighton's Lambrini Girls are obviously influenced by the Riot Grrl scene, and the band has finally recorded enough songs to put together a longer release. It sounds familiar, and yet totally foreign.

Lambrini Girls You're Welcome EP (Big Scary Monsters)

The additions to the sound aren't so much British as straightforward rock and roll. The punkest element are the spoken-shouted vocals, which are more spit out than anything else. The music is raucous and fuzz-locked, but always tight. This is one of the finer distillations of grunge, punk and no wave that I've heard. Period.

Actually, this probably resembles Raw Power more than anything. The lyrics that immediately blow past outrage and right into full-throated "Are you fucking kidding me?". The ultra-tight (but distorted) music and the AR-15 vocals. These songs trip by at a fantastic clip, never once slowing down to check on the victims.

Plenty of punk bands emanate faux attitude. Lambrini Girls are a big ball of attitude, spun out and woven into a tapestry of caustic outrage. Are you more punk than this? Unlikely. This short set is a heart-battering rush set to full pummel. I lost my breath two songs in, and I don't have time to find it. Get in thrall.

Jon Worley