Brigitte Calls Me Baby Announce Their New Album ‘Irreversible’
Chicago’s Brigitte Calls Me Baby have just announced their sophomore record Irreversible, which will arrive March 13th via ATO Records. Lead single “Slumber Party” finds frontman Wes Leavins’ iconic voice on full display, backed by propulsive guitar and percussion. 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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“Slumber Party” 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.
Alongside the album announcement, the band today have also revealed their headline North American Tour dates that will see them play this spring in Chicago, Seattle, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Nashville, DC, NYC and more. Their North American tour follows their upcoming headline dates in the UK and a stint supporting The Vaccines. See full list of tour dates below, tickets go on-sale, Friday, January 16th at 10AM local time – find tickets HERE.
Tour Dates
Jan 21st – Chicago, IL @ Schubas SOLD OUT
Jan 23rd – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
Feb 28 – Glasgow, UK @ O2 Academy Glasgow * SOLD OUT
Mar 1 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Victoria Warehouse * SOLD OUT
Mar 3 – Newcastle, UK @ O2 City Hall * SOLD OUT
Mar 4 – Edinburgh, UK @ Usher Hall * SOLD OUT
Mar 6 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Victoria Warehouse * SOLD OUT
Mar 7 – Birmingham, UK @ O2 Academy * SOLD OUT
Mar 9 – Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy * SOLD OUT
Mar 10 – Nottingham, UK @ Rock City * SOLD OUT
Mar 11 – Bristol, UK @ The Prospect Building * SOLD OUT
Mar 13 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton * SOLD OUT
Mar 14 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton * SOLD OUT
Mar 16 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso (Upstairs)
Mar 17 – Brussels, BE @ Madame Moustache
Mar 19 – Cologne, DE @ Luxor
Mar 20 – Hamburg, DE @ Molotow
Mar 22 – Berlin, DE @ Hole 44
Mar 23 – Munich, DE @ Strom
Mar 24 – Prague, CZ @ Café v Lese
Mar 25 – Vienna, AT @ Chelsea
Mar 28 – Milan, IT @ Circolo Magnolia
Mar 29 – Zurich, CH @ Dynamo Werk 21
Mar 31 – Paris, FR @ Trabendo
Apr 2 – London, UK @ Scala
Apr 3 – Liverpool, UK @ Hangar 34
Apr 4 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
Apr 13 – Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
Apr 14 – Des Moines, IA @ xBk
Apr 16 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Apr 18 – St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway
Apr 19 – Kansas City, MO @ RecordBar
Apr 21 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
Apr 24 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza
Apr 25 – Vancouver, BC @ Fox Cabaret
Apr 26 – Portland, OR @ Holocene
Apr 28 – San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord
Apr 30 – Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room
May 1 – San Diego, CA @ Voodoo Room at House of Blues
May 2 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
May 4 – Dallas, TX @ Puzzles
May 5 – Austin, TX @ Antone’s Nightclub
May 6 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall (Upstairs)
May 8 – Nashville, TN @ The Basement
May 9 – Atlanta, GA @ Vinyl at Center Stage
May 11 – Washington, DC @ The Atlantis
May 12 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry at The Fillmore
May 14 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
May 15 – Boston, MA @ The Red Room at Cafe 939
May 16 – Uncasville, CT @ Wolf Den at Mohegan Sun Resort
May 19 – Toronto, ON @ Longboat Hall
May 20 – Ferndale, MI @ The Loving Touch
May 21 – Indianapolis, IN @ HI-FI
*supporting The Vaccines
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 Leavins and his bandmates—guitarist Jack Fluegel, bassist Devin Wessels, drummer Jeremy Benshish—Brigitte Calls Me Baby’s sophomore album Irreversiblepushes 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.
Produced by Yves Rothman and Lawrence Rothman (Los Angeles-based brothers whose collective credits include Blondshell and Yves Tumor), Irreversible marks the follow-up to Brigitte Calls Me Baby’s widely lauded debut album The Future Is Our Way Out—a 2024 release that delivered standouts like “Impressively Average” (a Top 10 hit Triple A radio) and earned praise from tastemakers like Jimmy Kimmel Live!, SPIN and NME (who noted that “[i]n having so much fun with their legendary touchstones, Brigitte Calls Me Baby have carved out a triumph of their own”). Over the past few years, the band has toured relentlessly through the U.S., U.K., and Europe, moving from small rooms to sold-out headlining shows with a sense of disbelief that slowly gave way to confidence. Touring alongside bands like Fontaines D.C and Morrissey. only reinforced their instincts, offering irrefutable proof that there’s room for music that refuses to flatten its edges.
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.”
Thematically, Irreversible centers on acceptance: of reality, of time, of the present moment as something that can’t be undone. Death and its inevitability loom large throughout the album—not as shock value, but as a quiet motivator. While touring, Leavins has made a ritual of visiting graveyards as a form of exposure therapy, stopping in places like England’s Abney Park Cemetery to sit with the fear rather than avoid it. That confrontation with impermanence runs through Irreversible, which views death as the ultimate transition. Many of the album’s love songs wrestle with desire in its most unwieldy form: the wish to fully possess another person, or be possessed in return, even while knowing that kind of unity is impossible.
An instant transmission of pure unfiltered feeling, Irreversible explores everything from existential anxiety to generational cycles of depression to the toxic self-delusion of the emotionally manipulative. Centered on a boldly singular sound that feels both thrillingly new and immediately essential to the modern rock landscape, Irreversible spotlights the distinct narrative voice Leavins first cultivated by writing songs as a 13-year-old kid in Port Arthur, Texas. “My whole inclination toward music came from being in this small town in Texas with nowhere to go and nothing to do, and wanting to be understood without having to say anything,” he says.
Despite its fascination with the more shadowy dimensions of our emotional lives, Irreversible bears a subtle undercurrent of hope—a sense that peace can arrive when you stop resisting what is. And with the release ofIrreversible, Brigitte Calls Me Baby aim to impart others with a similar sense of hopeful determination. “All these songs just come from writing about what genuinely touches me, whether it’s my own experience or something I’ve observed in others,” Leavins acknowledges. “But in the end I want them to give hope to people who are yearning for something—whether that be in the romantic sense, or in the sense of finding a place in the world that truly feels like theirs. I want to leave people with the same sense of possibility I’ve always found in the music I love.”
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
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