The Alternative Top 40 is a monthly music chart shared across multiple music blogs, and a great way of discovering music you might not have heard elsewhere. You can contribute to the #AltTop40 by simply naming your favourite tracks of the moment – for full details of how to nominate music, see the latest post about the chart at Universal Horse. Here’s this month’s edition:
1. Hazel Winter – Y.D.F.L.M.
2. The Phantom Band – The Wind that Cried the World
3. Boxcar Aldous Huxley – The Slow Decline of the London Necropolis Railway
4. James – Moving On
5. Wenonoah – Hide
6. Jemima Surrender – Anathema
7. Sharon van Etten – Every Time the Sun Comes Up
8. Copeland w/Actress – Advice to Young Girls
9. Hiatus – Delam (featuring Dad)
10. Ruby Jack – My Friend Paranoia
11. Melt Yourself Down – Camel / +
12. John Tavener – The Lamb (Baile remix) / +
13. Noura Mint Seymali – Tzenni / +
14. Ben Frost – Nolan / +
15. UV – Cuts / +
16. The Child Wren – Rabbits Burrow / +
17. Francois and the Atlas Mountains – The Way to the Forest / +
18. Yoko Ono – Kiss Kiss Kiss / +
19. New Order – Singularity / +
20. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Heads On / +
21. Schnauzer – Westward Ho! / +
22. Tyler the Creator – Tamale / +
23. Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats – I’ll Cut You Down / +
24. John D Revelator – Union Girl / +
25. Kyla la Grange – Get It / +
26. Jack Adaptor – Get It Right First Time / +
27. Swans – She Loves Us / +
28. Yusuf Azak – Silver Rose / +
29. SJ Esau – Why Angry? / +
30. Fujiya&Miyagi – Flaws / +
31. Free Swim – Meal for One / +
32. Blue Rose Code – Edina / +
33. The Dirty Gentlemen – Messy Lady / +
34. The Jelas – Graphs / +
35. Sylvan Esso – Play it Right / +
36. Dawn of Midi – Lo / +
37. Flying Lotus – Tea Leaf Dancers / +
38. Chausse Trappe – Face A Part II / +
39. Earl Sweatshirt – Chum / +
40. Hazel Winter – Dreamtime / +
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