Album Review: Brigitte Calls Me Baby, Irreversible

If someone introduced you to Brigitte Calls Me Baby, showed you their album cover, spun their record, and then informed you they were a lost band from the new wave era, you wouldn’t bat an eyelid. Such is the debt that the Chicago group owes to the ’80s bands who’ve inspired them, such as Echo & The Bunnymen and The Cure.

But while BCMB – who’ve toured with Inhaler and are set to support Fontaines D.C. later this year – certainly wear their influences on their sleeve, Irreversible still sounds invigoratingly fresh. Indeed, the album variously offers toe-tapping jangle-pop in the form of ‘I Danced With Another Love In My Dream’; indie anthems like ‘Slumber Party’; seductive ditties like ‘Altitude’; and The Killers-go-new-wave glory of ‘Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction’.

Even if a few of the slower tunes, such as ‘I Can’t Have You All To Myself’ and ‘Send Those Memories’, don’t quite reach the same level, there’s still plenty to impress on this treasure trove of an LP.

• Out now.