NEW ALBUM IRREVERSIBLE OUT MARCH 13TH ON ATO RECORDS
Chicago’s Brigitte Calls Me Baby share “I Danced With Another Love in My Dream,” the second single from their highly anticipated sophomore record Irreversible, which arrives on March 13th via ATO Records. “That song started with us attempting to write something happy, but somehow found its way to being about infidelity,” shares vocalist Wes Leavins. “We played a few different versions live and in the end decided to lean into the bright and shiny side of it, and it turned into a song where those adulterous thoughts are carried out in a dream scenario.”
The group have had a whirlwind few years following the release of their debut album and relentless touring schedule. With sold-out tours across the US, UK and Europe alongside Morrissey, Muse, & Fontaines D.C., and television performances at Kimmel, Kelly Clarkson, and CBS, the band are ready to return with an electrifying suite of songs that fully captures the energy and grandeur of their live show.
Produced by Yves Rothman and Lawrence Rothman (Blondshell, Yves Tumor), Irreversible marks the follow-up to their critically lauded 2024 debut The Future Is Our Way Out. Recorded live at Lawrence’s home studio, the 11-song LP reveals a band profoundly transformed by their countless hours on the road and instilled with a newfound fearlessness.
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Released last month, lead single “Slumber Party” finds frontman Wes Leavins’ iconic voice on full display, backed by propulsive guitar and percussion. The track delves into the dark corners of the human psyche, with Leavins sharing that he “wrote that song thinking about the type of people who isolate and ruminate, to the point where it becomes a chore to leave the home.” Written on the road, like much of the record, “Slumber Party” was added to their San Diego setlist on a whim. The crowd’s feverish reaction made something click—the band realized they weren’t just gathering ideas and writing songs; they were building a record.
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Irreversible Tracklisting
- There Always
- Slumber Party
- I Danced With Another Love in My Dreams
- The Pit
- Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
- These Acts of Which Were Designed
- Sillage
- I Can’t Have You All To Myself
- I Can Take the Sun Out of the Sky
- The Early Days of Love
- Send Those Memories
In the larger-than-life world of Brigitte Calls Me Baby, our most difficult emotions become beautifully warped into something sublime: heartbreak turns to melancholy, desperation takes on a poetic glamour, infatuation becomes something unruly and impossible to contain. With their lavish and electrifying breed of alt-rock, the Chicago-based band doesn’t seek to resolve these feelings so much as sit inside them: idealizing, interrogating, and ultimately surrendering to their emotional weight. It’s a sensibility that’s earned the band a diehard following since forming in 2022. In a major leap forward for vocalist Wes Leavins and his bandmates—guitarist Jack Fluegel, bassist Devin Wessels, drummer Jeremy Benshish—Brigitte Calls Me Baby’s sophomore album Irreversible pushes further into the exquisite pathos of their songwriting, all while fully capturing the transcendent grandeur of their live show. The result: a majestic suite of songs that burn bright, hit hard, and passionately celebrate the drama of being alive.
Much of Irreversible was written in transit: lyrics scribbled in hotels and Airbnbs, melodies rigorously analyzed over headphones, voice memos traded back and forth between Leavins and Wessels while the rest of the world slept. When Brigitte Calls Me Baby returned to Chicago for brief stretches, they’d flesh out those songs before heading back out on the road, then further refine them in soundchecks and test the new material live.
That exacting but illuminating process left the songs exceptionally dialed-in by the time Brigitte Calls Me Baby entered the studio with the Rothmans, whose work with artists like Girl in Red and Angel Olsen proved immensely inspiring to the band. Recording sessions were intentionally brief—four-hour days that prioritized intuition over excess—because the songs already knew what they wanted to be. In a profound evolution of their debut, Irreversible is more layered and less direct, allowing for more texture, tension, and space to linger in emotional extremes. “Our first album taught me that you’ve got to reach as far down into your soul as possible and be willing to show something real and raw to the world, and with this album that felt even easier and more natural,” says Leavins. “There was a time when I tried to bury the kind of feelings we’re displaying on this record, but now I’m at the point where I don’t feel the need to hold anything back.”