With “The Future Is Our Way Out”, the American band Brigitte Calls Me Baby delivers a striking debut album, which shows a big sound with a lot of echoes of the legendary band The Smiths. It may take some time to get used to the vocals on Brigitte Calls Me Baby’s debut album, but if the voice of singer Wes Leavins has you in your hands, this band from Chicago quickly plays a winning game. Brigitte Calls Me Baby makes no secret of her musical heroes and finds them mainly in British and American music history. The band is not averse to compelling songs and a lot of drama, but once used to the songs on “The Future Our Way Out” is a wonderful album with a sound that, despite all the influences from the past, sounds fresh and contemporary.
I came across Brigitte Calls Me Baby. For a moment I thought that Morrissey had finally made a good album, but the voice of the singer of Brigitte Calls Me Baby sounds a bit different than that of the British singer, who unfortunately seems to have lost his way at the moment.
Despite the comparison with Morrissey’s voice, the vocals on Brigitte Call’s Me Baby debut album.
Morrissey is audibly a source of inspiration for the American singer, who also mentions Roy Orbison and Elvis Presley as sources of inspiration, something that can also be heard in a number of tracks on the debut album of the band from Chicago. Wes Leavins likes to sing out loud, which creates a lot of drama, but in the end the vocals on “The Future Is Our Way Out” by Brigitte Calls Me Baby almost always stay on the right side of the line as far as I’m concerned and these vocals are really impressively beautiful at times.
The fact that the opening track of the album reminded me of Morrissey was mainly due to the vocals, but also musically I heard similarities with the music that Morrissey’s band The Smiths made in the distant past. As a result, the music of Brigitte Calls Me Baby sometimes feels a bit British, but the songs on the band’s debut album also have an American side.
Certainly the more uptempo songs on the album have some of the music with which The Strokes once appeared, while a touch of Americana brings the aforementioned musical heroes of Wes Leavins a little closer. Personally, I like the songs that are close to the music of The Smiths because of the guitar lines and the vocals, because the oeuvre of the illustrious British band can’t be influential enough for me.
“The Future Is Our Way Out” by Brigitte Calls Me Baby is full of rock-solid songs, which, despite the dominant vocals and the frequently recurring guitar lines, sound surprisingly varied. the further I get and the more impressed I get with the debut album of the band from Chicago, which easily walks through time in terms of influences and covers a number of decades. I dare to predict Brigitte Calls Me Baby a bright future, especially if Wes Leavins can also show his impressive voice on stage.
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