The Alternative Top 40 is a regular music chart shared across multiple music blogs, and a great way of discovering music you might not have heard elsewhere. We are delighted to be among those blogs involved in sharing this list, which is created from nominations from you and compiled by the website Universal Horse. To contribute to the next #AltTop40 all you have to do is suggest your favourite tracks of the moment to Universal Horse via their online form – or email them at [email protected] by Saturday 3rd January. Here’s this month’s edition:
1. Michael O’Neill – Cheetham Hill Speed Scene
2. Robert Plant – Little Maggie
3. Noura Mint Seymali – Tzenni
4. Grumbling Fur – All the Rays (East India Youth remix)
5. Cassetteboy – Cameron’s Conference Rap
6. Hazel Winter – Y.D.F.L.M.
7. Vessel – Red Sex
8. The Bug feat. Warrior Queen – Fuck U
9. Deerhoof – Exit Only
10. Alex Dingley – Knuckle Bone
11. SJ Esau – Soul II Skull / + 12. Lowell – The Bells / + 13. Stop Motion Orchestra – Mystery Grandma / + 14. Boxcar Aldous Huxley – The Slow Decline of the London Necropolis Railway / + 15. Vietcong – Oxygen Feed / + 16. Kogumaza – NB / Kолокол / Ursids / + 17. Yellow Creatures – Spinning Orange Catherine Peel / + 18. Perfume Genius – Fool / + 19. The Feminists – Schnippi / + 20. New Cowboy Builders – Black Moses / + 21. SJ Esau – Frustrating / + 22. Mogwai – Teenage Exorcists / + 23. Amanda Palmer – The Killing Type + 24. Hamell on Trial – Happiest Man in the World / + 25. Camera – Synchron / + 26. Kendrick Lamar – Swimming Pools (Drank) / + 27. Mano’s Daughter – You / + 28. Mylets – Hungover Tehran / + 29. Perfume Genius – Queen / + 30. The Death of Pop – Whenever / + 31. By the Rivers – Vultures / + 32. Rachael Dadd – Strike Our Scythes / + 33. Kate Tempest – Circles / + 34. Marianne Faithfull – Late Victorian Holocaust / + 35. The Wytches – Burn Out the Bruise / + 36. The History of Apple Pie – Special Girl / + 37. Logos feat. Mumdance – Wut it Do / + 38. The Brackish – Surf’s Down / + 39. Kate Bush – There Goes a Tenner / + 40. Metal Office – Downard / + Compiled by Universal Horse.
