To contribute to the next #AltTop40 all you have to do is suggest your favorite tracks of the moment to Universal Horse via their online form – or email them a top 5 at alternativetop40@gmail.com 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
https://soundcloud.com/tri_angle_records/vessel-red-sex2. Eels - Where I'm Going
https://soundcloud.com/the_eels/eels-where-im-going3. Wenonoah - Hide
https://soundcloud.com/wenonoah/hide-rough-edit4. Copeland (Ft. Actress) - Advice to Young Girls
https://soundcloud.com/mewedemeyer/copeland-ft-actress-advice-to5. Noura Mint Seymali - Tzenni
https://soundcloud.com/glitterbeat/tzenni6. Boxcar Aldous Huxley - The Slow Decline of the London Necropolis Railway
Telegrams Elapsing by Boxcar Aldous Huxley7. Rabit - Red Candles
https://soundcloud.com/boxedldn/rabit-red-candles8. Swans - She Loves Us
https://play.spotify.com/track/5SH4r0qP1mH7zj8BjR2Vq69. SJ Esau - Soul II Skull
https://soundcloud.com/sjesau/sj-esau-soul-ii-skull10. Robert Plant - Little Maggie
https://play.spotify.com/track/48vdD6u2DURYUi5vimp56d11. Die Antwoord - Ugly Boy / +12. The Brackish - Surf's Down / +13. Rachael Dadd - Strike Our Scythes / +
14. Bob Mould - I Don't Know You Any More / +15. Perfume Genius - Queen / +
16. Alex Dingley - Knuckle Bone / +
17. New Cowboy Builders - Black Moses / +
18. Deerhoof - Exit Only / +
19. Gulp - Vast Space / +
20. Yasmine Hamdane - Hal / +
21. The War on Drugs - Red Eyes / +
22. The Spitfires - I'm Holding On +
23. Marilyn Manson - Third Day of a Seven Day Binge / +
24. The Bug feat. Manga - Function / +
25. La Dispute - Extraordinary Dinner Party / +
26. Papernut Cambridge - Nutflake Social / +
27. tUnE-yArDs - Water Fountain / +
28. Paul Orwell - Tell Me, Tell Me / +
29. Tape Waves - Looking at the Sun / +
30. Grumbling Furs - All the Rays / +
31. Downard - Metal Office / +
32. Porcelain - My Friend Paranoia / +
33. Scott Walker and Sunn O))) - Herod 2014 / +
34. Xiu Xiu - Stupid in the Dark/ +
35. Psyence - Chemicals for Breakfast / +
36. Happyness - Great Minds Think Alike, All Brains Taste the Same / +
37. Henry Blacker - Pullin Like a Dray / +
38. Adrienne Lenker and Buck Meek - A Better Time to Meet / +
39. The Van Allen Belt - Clouds/ +
40. The Spiritualized Mississippi Space Program - Always Forgetting with You / +
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