When Chicago five-piece Brigitte Calls Me Baby released their debut album in 2024, they offered up an alluring mix of yearning new wave and heartbroken retro-rock made all the more evocative by lead singer Wes Leavins’ towering vocals, which split the difference between Elvis Presley (whom Leavins has portrayed on-stage) and Morrissey (who himself was influenced by Presley and “the U.K. Elvis,” Billy Fury).
On the follow-up, Irreversible, Leavins and band lean fully into the lush, pining sound of ’80s New Romantics while leaving Elvis behind but bringing along a strong Smiths sensibility. While the Morrissey comparisons are inevitable this time around, Brigitte Calls Me Baby put their own soaring, lovesick twist on influences…

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