Brigitte Calls Me Baby traveling into the future while looking back
THE Brigitte Calls Me Baby they come from Chicago – where they formed in 2022 – and have released their second album entitled just a couple of weeks ago “Irreversible”a year and a half after the good feedback received from the debut album “The future is our way out”driven by songs “Impressively average” And “We were never alive”.
We could start by introducing the group, from the curious name of the band which – as the singer of the group said Wes Leavins – was born from a correspondence between the then teenager Wes and (no less) the French actress Brigitte Bardot. Or, to get an idea of the contours of their musical influences, mention the albums that have a special place in the frontman’s heart: “Is This It?” (read the review here), the first album by Strokesor “Violator” of the Depeche Mode and also “Grace” (read the review here) Of Jeff Buckley. Some other confirmations of the goodness of their abilities are proven by the fact of having opened concerts for artists of the caliber of Muse, Fontaines DC And Morrissey.
Own Morrissey he is the singer he can remember most closely Wes Leavinsthis is why the band in some songs can immediately make you think of Smiths. The comparison with the Manchester band that was all the rage in the mid-eighties is amplified by the new wave atmosphere of the band’s songs. Brigitte Calls Me Baby in which synthesizers are widely used. But reducing the Chicago band to a mere copy of the Smiths it would not only be wrong but also reductive and ungenerous. Of course there is much more, of course there are many other influences. To name a few we could mention Killers, Strokes and The 1975.
Of course there is no way to listen to form your own idea. Below you will find the video “Slumber Party”the first single from the new album “Irreversible”a definitive title – just as the past is definitive and unchangeable – a title that is explained as follows: “We wanted each song to feel like you’re looking back on your life. Here are the moments that shaped you, and here are 11 songs, 11 moments.”
THE Brigitte Calls Me Baby on Saturday 28 March they will perform for the first time in Italy at the Circolo Magnolia in Segrate, in the immediate vicinity of Milan. The band said: “The live element has always influenced our music, but now more than ever.” So you are warned: if you go to their concert in Milan, one day you might proudly say ‘I was there at the first Italian concert of Brigitte Calls Me Baby’.
