Vents MagaZine Music and Entertainment Magazine
Related Articles
Today, ATO Records’ Chicago-based quintet Brigitte Calls Me Baby releases their new single, “Too Easy.” Following the band’s electrifying performance and late night TV debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last week, this release continues to build excitement toward the release of their debut album this Friday, August 2nd as well as their Lollapalooza Festival debut on August 3rd and the kick-off of their US headlining tour on September 7th.
On “Too Easy,” the band slips into a moment of new-wave majesty built on skittering guitar tones and darkly throbbing beats, with Leavins’ voice taking on a near-operatic grandeur as he questions the reliability of memory and the durability of love.
Brigitte Calls Me Baby’s Lollapalooza festival debut in their hometown Chicago will be the band’s largest show in the city to date following two sold-out nights at Lincoln Hall just last month, and a sold-out play at Schubas Tavern in March. Making headlines across Chicago media, the band has been featured in Chicago Tribune, Chicago Magazine, and Chicago Sun-Times who writes that they have “...taken the local scene by storm in recent months, leading the pack of a new era of homegrown rock bands that are steadily gaining national attention.”
The band has also earned national acclaim from the likes of NPR, FLOOD, WXPN, and NME, who said the “Chicago romantics deliver the thrills of a bygone era.” In lead singer Wes Leavins’ words, “It’s all about drama and power, both in the instrumentation and the vocal approach.”
Since the release of their debut EP, This House Is Made of Corners, the band has made their late night debut on Kimmel, following their national TV debut on CBS Saturday Morning. They also took the stage as part of NPR’s World Cafe (who hailed Leavins’ “swoon-worthy voice and on-stage swagger that suggests he was always destined for bright lights and throngs of screaming fans”). To watch CBS Saturday Morning, click HERE.
On September 7th, following two sold-out hometown dates at Chicago’s Lincoln Hall and their first-ever performances at Summerfest and Lollapalooza, the band will kick off a string of headlining tour dates with stops in Austin, TX, and Washington, D.C. before a series of shows with the Airborne Toxic Event continuing into the fall.
