Wow babbling my baw baw baw bum bum From W be Z Chicago and PRX, this is sound opinions. I'm Jim De Regottis.

And I'm Greg Kot. This week we're digging into our stacks of new music and sharing some of our favorites.

From Philly Hardcore Band Control Top to Los Angeles rock band,

Kills Birds, we've got new music you need to hear. You've always had to get your life. Get out of my way!

Plus, we'll find out what song got Blues legend Bobby Rush hooked on Sonics.

And Jim drops a coin into the Desert Island Jukebox to play a song he cannot live without.

That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.

You're listening to Sound Opinions, I'm Jim Deeregatus. He's Greg Kot and several times a year we do one of our favorite kinds of shows buried treasures. What's a buried treasure, Greg? These are records that are under the mainstream radar, as you said. Not everybody's talking about them.

They're not being hyped to the heavens. There's no publicist. You may have to dig a little bit.

You have to go to Band camp and not just Spotify. It's

music that comes to us that pings the radar that you may give the initial 20 second listen to and

then you're like there's something here and we dig deeper.

You're going to lead us off.

Tell us what you're starting with.

Well Jim I am going to play a record that I've actually been meaning to play for quite a

few months. It's been out since earlier

this year but I'm glad to get an opportunity to play it now. It's a Philly

trio called Control Top. Their debut album, Covert Contracts, just blew my doors off when I first heard it.

I went back to it again a week ago and realized this record still holds up.

It's one of my favorite records of the year.

Sort of a trio, female lead vocalist,

Ali Carter is a real pistol.

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