Alternative Top 40 – Winter 2015

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 publishing 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 a top 5 at [email protected] by Saturday 4th April.

Here’s this month’s edition (note that for its January edition Universal Horse only counts releases from the previous 12 months, making this a de facto ‘tracks of the year’ list):

1. Vessel – Red Sex

2. Eels – Where I’m Going

3. Wenonoah – Hide

4. Copeland (Ft. Actress) – Advice to Young Girls

5. Noura Mint Seymali – Tzenni

6. Boxcar Aldous Huxley – The Slow Decline of the London Necropolis Railway

Telegrams Elapsing by Boxcar Aldous Huxley

7. Rabit – Red Candles

8. Swans – She Loves Us

9. SJ Esau – Soul II Skull

10. Robert Plant – Little Maggie

1. Die Antwoord – Ugly Boy / +
2. The Brackish – Surf’s Down / +
3. Rachael Dadd – Strike Our Scythes / +
4. Bob Mould – I Don’t Know You Any More / +
5. Perfume Genius – Queen / +
6. Alex Dingley – Knuckle Bone / +
7. New Cowboy Builders – Black Moses / +
8. Deerhoof – Exit Only / +
9. Gulp – Vast Space / +
10. Yasmine Hamdane – Hal / +
11. The War on Drugs – Red Eyes / +
12. The Spitfires – I’m Holding On +
13. Marilyn Manson – Third Day of a Seven Day Binge / +
14. The Bug feat. Manga – Function / +
15. La Dispute – Extraordinary Dinner Party / +
16. Papernut Cambridge – Nutflake Social / +
17. tUnE-yArDs – Water Fountain / +
18. Paul Orwell – Tell Me, Tell Me / +
19. Tape Waves – Looking at the Sun / +
20. Grumbling Furs – All the Rays / +
21. Downard – Metal Office / +
22. Porcelain – My Friend Paranoia / +
23. Scott Walker & Sunn O))) – Herod 2014 / +
24. Xiu Xiu – Stupid in the Dark/ +
25. Psyence – Chemicals for Breakfast / +
26. Happyness – Great Minds Think Alike, All Brains Taste the Same / +
27. Henry Blacker – Pullin Like a Dray / +
28. Adrienne Lenker and Buck Meek – A Better Time to Meet / +
29. The Van Allen Belt – Clouds/ +
30. The Spiritualized Mississippi Space Program – Always Forgetting with You / +

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