Brigitte Calls Me Baby - he Future Is Our Way Out

Artiest/Band:Brigitte Calls Me Baby Album: The Future Is Our Way Out Release 26.07.2024 Label: ATO Records Chicago-based quintet Brigitte Calls Me Baby announce their debut album today, The Future Is Our Way Out, set for release on August 2nd. Partially recorded at RCA Studio A in Nashville with previous collaborator and 9x Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb

, The Future Is Our Way Out also features a selection of songs self-produced by lead singer Wes Leavins and his bandmates: guitarists Jack Fluegel and Trevor Lynch, bassist Devin Wessels, and drummer Jeremy Benshish.

With the band’s poetic meditations on desire, anxiety, and the complexities of impermanence, it arrives as a potent evolution of Brigitte Calls Me Baby’s debut EP This House Is Made Of Corners— which earned acclaim from NME who said the “Chicago romantics deliver the thrills of a bygone era.” 

Out today is the lead single “We Were Never Alive” with shuddering rhythms and spectral guitar lines that meet in a gloriously bleak contemplation of mortality. “Devin wrote the music to that song and I loved how dramatic it felt, so the goal was to match that drama in the lyrics,” says Leavins. “It became a song about how in the grand scheme of existence, the time we’re alive is so brief and insignificant. At some point, after you’re gone, when everyone who knew you is gone as well, it’s almost as if you never existed at all.” Watch the music video below and listen via all streaming services.