“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