“Pop Music” need not be obvious, safe, boring or trite. It should be unexpected, challenging, dangerous, and original. It should challenge your perceptions. This weeks selection does the latter - indeed if we are dealing in antonyms perhaps we should describe it as unpopular music - but that perhaps has all the wrong connotations. This music is from the edges, the nether regions of the music world. You won’t see it bothering the mainstream. It is exciting, fresh, novel, innovative, provocative, unconventional, and, it inspires. A little like hearing “Virginia Plain” by Roxy Music when you were mired in a world of Led Zeppelin and thinking “Hey! That’s Different?”.

PLAYLIST

• Inca Babies - Candy Mountain
• Neon Kittens - Hear No Sound
• The Bordellos - Village people in disguise
• The Voodoo Drummer Duo - Yomo’s Dream
• The Sexual Objects - Cincinatti Blooms
• SnarskiCircusLindyBand - Parapet
• Cold Hands Warm Heart - Rakali Mullet (live for NTS)
• Rúbi Ate The Fig - Breathe
• Relay Tapes - Landlocked
• Perpacity - Let It Roll
• Taps of the Holy Trinity - Most Of Them Were Ghosts
• Daisy Rickman - Howl
• Diego Caicedo - Islas de Estabilidad
• Don Was and the Pan Detroit Ensemble - Midnight Marauders
• Sword Tongue - Diamonds To Rust
• The King Canutes - Seymour Stein (for Earle Homes)
• Charlie Nieland - Brutalist Monuments
• Wasted - You’re Wasted
• Legless Trials - American Russ Never Sleeps Pts 1 & 2
• Olovson - Things I Could Have Left Behind
• Beak> - Yatton
• The New Eves - Circles
• Moon - Passenger Seat
• Precogs - Post Naturalist
• Danny Short - It Seems So Obvious
• Dave Graney ‘n’ The Coral Snakes - You’re Just Too Hip, Baby (Live)
• The Go-Betweens - German Farmhouse (Airlock Demo)
• Moff Skellington - Optimysticism
• Yeigh - Another Day
• Stepbrothers -Berlins’ Baby Bondage Party
• The Red Propellers - John Lennon Postage Stamps