Led by singer Wes Leavins who supports a rockabilly quiff and named after his teenage correspondence to Brigitte Bardot. Leavins played Elvis in a Chicago production of Million Dollar Quartet and then worked on Baz Luhrman’s Elvis biopic. Crooning over rock music, the band opened for Morrissey in 2025, and recorded a cover of Wham!’s “Careless Whisper”.
I thought The Future is Our Way Out was a great album. The song propelled by a handful of songs that sounded like radio singles. Songs like “Impressively Average” cut right out from the Morrissey cloth.
It is not surprising that BCMB leans into the same sound on their follow up. There is definitely a market of music that sounds like the Smiths, particularly when Morrissey himself has seemed to lost some of his lyrical touch.
Right off the bat, “There Always” opens up the proceedings with Leavins leaning into a cod Moz voice and lovelorn lyrics which sounds like I am complaining but the melody rescues it.
Not only vocalwise, the band sways with the confidence of Morrissey.
Lyrics like “I bought the Blue Velvet DVD. I brought it to the Slumber Party” are unlikely to land. But like any crooner worth their salt, he sells like it’s the most important thing in the world, and it works on “Slumber Party”.
Though the album didn’t knock me out completely on first listen, it has surprising depth. They can still write a song that sounds like a hit single, for example “I Can Take the Sun Out of the Sky” and there really aren’t any skippable tracks. For those who long for the days of the Smiths or Duran Duran, Brigitte Calls Me Baby are here for you
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