Here at Record Rewind Play we are proud to be one of the blogs hosting the Alternative Top 40, run by Universal-Horse.

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. You can contribute to the #AltTop40 by simply naming your favourite tracks of the moment on the dedicated page at Universal Horse. Here’s the winter edition:

For its January edition Universal Horse only counts releases from the previous 12 months, making The Alternative Top 40 Winter 2015 a de facto _tracks of the year_ list

  1. Vessel - Red Sex

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  2. Eels - Where I'm Going

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  3. Wenonoah - Hide

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  4. Copeland (Ft. Actress) - Advice to Young Girls</strong>

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  5. Noura Mint Seymali - Tzenni

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

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  7. Rabit - Red Candles

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  8. Swans - She Loves Us

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  9. SJ Esau - Soul II Skull

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  10. Robert Plant - Little Maggie

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  11. 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 Fur - All the Rays / +
  31. Downard - Metal Office / +
  32. Porcelain - My Friend Paranoia / +
  33. Scott Walker & 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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