Oh, Shh. From W.B.E.Z. Chicago and PRX, this is Sound Opinions. I'm Greg Kott.

And I'm Jim Deregadis. This week we're joined in the studio by one of the best new bands we've heard

in ages, the Regrets.

Music is the one thing in the world that's a universal language and because of that it's one of the most powerful things.

Plus, singer-songwriter Frank Turner tells us about one of the first songs he learned to play on guitar.

My initial experience of playing music was in leading sing-alongs for my friends.

That's all coming up on sound opinions.

You're listening to sound opinions and coming up on the show a performance and I don't like you. Greg, this was my album of the year in 2017,

their debut recording.'re ridiculously young just

out of high school from Los Angeles you love them as well I do Jim that's going to be

later on in the show but first we've got a fresh batch of what we call buried treasures

This is music that's kind of flying under the radar, but we feel everybody needs to hear it

Jim you want to start us off? I am eager to get us going Greg. We recently

did a show about our discoveries from the South by Southwest Music Festival. We

love doing these shows. I have more bands that I came back with that I'm eager to share with our

listeners. I'm walking back, it's late at night, I'm dog tired, I am passing what is

called during South by Southwest, the British Music Embassy. What's nice about that club? You know capacity

150 right but there's no front to the club right so you can just stand in the

street and listen and I heard this band shopping. Now I had heard of them before things you get away with.

We lived through your perfect face. You made me want to say let's never be time for

anything. Now I had heard of them before, formed in 2013 in the UK, wonderful guitarist racial

ag's, really strong rhythm section Billy Easter on bass and

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