Last night, Brigitte Calls Me Baby opened up the second night of Twisted XMAS for Lovejoy and White Reaper and quite frankly, they blew Brian, Kenzie, and myself (Case the Producer) away. Quickly, they have etched their name into the pantheon of great Chicago bands, simply based off of their excellent performance at the Aragon last night.

These are the three Brigitte Calls Me Baby songs that you need to know.

Brigitte Calls Me Baby – Impossibly Average

The band’s flagship single, “Impossibly Average” is a breathtaking three-minute foray into the world of Brigitte, even if the title of the song could not be any more misleading. The song is incredible. It’s unique. Nothing else in contemporary music sounds like it. It’s impossibly stunning and something that shouldn’t exist in modern times.

Brigitte Calls Me Baby – Eddie My Love

The strength of Chicago’s own Brigitte Calls Me Baby is their desire for romanticism. “Eddie My Love”, which sounds like a cut off Louder Than Bombs, sees the band at peak-yearning. In the chorus, frontman Wes Leavins bellows out “I thought I knew me but I didn’t know myself // You saw right through me and truth was I never fell // So hard”. Heartbreaking, introspective, and powerful, it’s easy to see the winning formula that Brigitte churns out with a track like this.

Brigitte Calls Me Baby – You Are Only Made of Dreams

With a voice like the one that frontman Wes Leavins possesses, it’s easy to talk about the crooners that predated Brigitte and how similar this Chicago-based band sounds to them. “You Are Only Made of Dreams” is the band stretching out their wings and taking the best parts of contemporary indie rock and lacing them with that soon-to-be-iconic voice. The band is simply “in the pocket”, operating at peak performance seemingly doing it effortlessly.