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So now listen, John Lee, it is start time. Are you ready for start time?

You're listening to Sound Opinions, and this week we'll be talking with Alicia Gaines, the vocalist and bassist of one of our favorite Chicago bands, Ganzer. I'm Jim DeRogatus.

And I'm Greg Kot, but first we share some buried treasures. New under the radar music you need to hear.

You know Jim, we do these segments fairly regularly on the show. There's so much great music out there that we can't get to in the regular reviews sections of our shows.

So we were able to collect a lot of music. And you know, both of us are looking for stuff that's generally not reviewed everywhere else.

A couple of laws and maybe here and there. You know, it's not a Taylor Swift level type of thing.

Well, let me tell you, this is a testament to our audience, Greg. I will share a little behind the scenes producer knowledge. These are among our most streamed favorite episodes.

So our audience comes with us on this journey of discovery. That's what we're in it for. And you know, people say, how do you find this stuff?

And to me, word amount is the best critic there is. I mean, if somebody, a friend that you trust in music or somebody that you know listens to a lot of music says,

hey, you really got to check this out. That word is golden for me. I'm going to check it out.

Well, I didn't follow that methodology. I agree with you from the most part. I didn't follow that method this time, though.

I strictly went to the stack of vinyl that had collected over the last couple of months.

Having with my punk band just put out a vinyl album, you know, the pain in the neck of Stan, it took me 40 minutes in the post office to send a vinyl copy to Serbia.

And I figured, you know, if this writer in Serbia really wants to hear this, I'm going to do it. But it was like, that was like, you know, a chunk of my day.

Yeah. Right. And I want your artists to know that I understand the sacrifice. I mean, first of all, there's a nine month to year long wait right now to get vinyl from the pressing plants.

Yeah. An email with a link, you know, it costs zero money, right? But this is like, they wanted us to have this music.

Yeah. But but you're leading us off.

I am. I'm not going to play a full-length album. I'm going to play one of the six songs on an EP by artist named Susan Bells. The EP is called Trust the Waves Will Hold You.

If you pay attention to liner notes on records, you're going to see Susan Bells' name around. She's been around for decades.

She's a key member of Poidog pondering for years and years. Alejandro Escavedo played with Susan on many of his projects. Melon Camp, you know, he loves his violin players. He loves to have a little violin in the band.

You want a violin. You want a fiddle. You call Susan. You're going to call. Exactly. So she has been stockpiling music over the years for a project. She doesn't release a ton of music under her own name. But once she does, you know, it's going to be good. And this is no exception.

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