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The Future Is Our Way Out in Bloomington, MN
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In 2023, Chicago-based band
Brigitte Calls Me Baby
made waves with a retro-minded debut EP,
This House Is Made of Corners
, that combined
Presley
-vintage balladry and lush, soaring '80s new wave, with a bit of spiky,
Strokes
-ian flair and
Morrissey
-esque drama thrown in for good measure. Less than a year later, their debut album,
The Future Is Our Way Out
, seamlessly re-sequences the five tracks from the EP with six new songs. The original EP was recorded with Grammy-winning producer
Dave Cobb
(
John Prine
,
Jason Isbell
Brandi Carlile
), whom
Brigitte
leader
Wes Leavins
met (and passed along a band demo to) on the set of
Baz Luhrmann
's
Elvis
biopic. Having portrayed
Elvis Presley
in a touring production of the musical Million Dollar Quartet that
Luhrmann
saw,
Leavins
was enlisted to help with the soundtrack. While the charismatic
mostly manages to transcend clear touchpoints like
-- and the '50s-inspired
-- on his band's debut,
pastiche surfaces most conspicuously on the quieter moments of yearning rock & roll ballad "Always Be Fine," where the singer really nails that distinctive vibrato. Likewise, on the
end of the spectrum, the band offer one song in particular, "I Wanna Die in the Suburbs," that not only sounds like a lost
Smiths
gem but includes a chorus that emotes, "I wanna die in your four-car garage/Turn out the lights and send in the entourage¿But I don't wanna die alone." While these songs are a tremendous amount of fun for fans of their reference points -- because they're legitimately good songs, and to say that the band pull them off is an understatement -- the bulk of the album is populated by catchy, romantic, almost timeless material that lands somewhere in between while also borrowing from later eras of indie. In other words, they fall upon a sound of their own. One highlight, "Impressively Average," for instance, is a driving, rockabilly-injected dance-rock entry with an infectious bassline, layers of shimmery and purer guitar tones, and handclap-like "two-and, four" snare beats. On that song,
eventually reaches for the stratosphere with an elated "Oh my God, I am home." It can be hard to pick high points, though, as every song here is a potential hit single, with the possible exception of the (
- and)
Santo & Johnny
-evoking outro, "Always Be Fine," a hushed love song bubbling over with desire ("Some days I want to scream out your name/But mostly I refrain"). Band lore of note: The name
was taken from an exchange of letters between
(then in high school and having done a class project on the actress) and
Brigitte Bardot
. ~ Marcy Donelson
Brigitte Calls Me Baby
made waves with a retro-minded debut EP,
This House Is Made of Corners
, that combined
Presley
-vintage balladry and lush, soaring '80s new wave, with a bit of spiky,
Strokes
-ian flair and
Morrissey
-esque drama thrown in for good measure. Less than a year later, their debut album,
The Future Is Our Way Out
, seamlessly re-sequences the five tracks from the EP with six new songs. The original EP was recorded with Grammy-winning producer
Dave Cobb
(
John Prine
,
Jason Isbell
Brandi Carlile
), whom
Brigitte
leader
Wes Leavins
met (and passed along a band demo to) on the set of
Baz Luhrmann
's
Elvis
biopic. Having portrayed
Elvis Presley
in a touring production of the musical Million Dollar Quartet that
Luhrmann
saw,
Leavins
was enlisted to help with the soundtrack. While the charismatic
mostly manages to transcend clear touchpoints like
-- and the '50s-inspired
-- on his band's debut,
pastiche surfaces most conspicuously on the quieter moments of yearning rock & roll ballad "Always Be Fine," where the singer really nails that distinctive vibrato. Likewise, on the
end of the spectrum, the band offer one song in particular, "I Wanna Die in the Suburbs," that not only sounds like a lost
Smiths
gem but includes a chorus that emotes, "I wanna die in your four-car garage/Turn out the lights and send in the entourage¿But I don't wanna die alone." While these songs are a tremendous amount of fun for fans of their reference points -- because they're legitimately good songs, and to say that the band pull them off is an understatement -- the bulk of the album is populated by catchy, romantic, almost timeless material that lands somewhere in between while also borrowing from later eras of indie. In other words, they fall upon a sound of their own. One highlight, "Impressively Average," for instance, is a driving, rockabilly-injected dance-rock entry with an infectious bassline, layers of shimmery and purer guitar tones, and handclap-like "two-and, four" snare beats. On that song,
eventually reaches for the stratosphere with an elated "Oh my God, I am home." It can be hard to pick high points, though, as every song here is a potential hit single, with the possible exception of the (
- and)
Santo & Johnny
-evoking outro, "Always Be Fine," a hushed love song bubbling over with desire ("Some days I want to scream out your name/But mostly I refrain"). Band lore of note: The name
was taken from an exchange of letters between
(then in high school and having done a class project on the actress) and
Brigitte Bardot
. ~ Marcy Donelson
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