DiS has gone through all the albums, singles and b-sides of the year (so far!) and put together a playlist of our favourite forty tracks for your exploration, deliberation and listening pleasure.

As we've done this using Spotify (visit Spotify.com to download the software) there's plenty of opportunity to wander off and discover more artists that you may like. Click this text here to stream this playlist

Feel free to spend your extended weekend making and sharing your own playlists of your songs of the first three months of 2009 and post them as a link in the comment section below.

1. Andrew Bird - 'Anonanimal'
2. Bat For Lashes - 'Pearl's Dream'
3. School Of Seven Bells - 'Iamundernodisguise'
4. The Maccabees - 'No Kind Words'
5. Metric - 'Help I'm Alive
6. Patrick Wolf - 'Vulture**
7. PJ Harvey - 'A Woman A Man Walked By / The Crow Knows Where All The Little Children Go'
8. Fever Ray - 'If I Had A Heart' (Fuck Buttons Remix)
9. Animal Collective - 'Summertime Clothes'
10. Beirut - 'Mimizan'
11. The Veils - 'Sit Down By The Fire'
12. Grammatics - 'Murderer'
13. The Decemberists - 'The Hazards Of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won’t Wrestle The Thistles Undone)'
14. M. Ward - 'Epistemology'
15. Antony & The Johnsons - 'Another World'
16. Bon Iver - 'Woods'
17. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 'Skeletons'
18. Telepathe - 'Chrome's On It'
19. Handsome Furs - 'Radio Kaliningrad'
20. The Kills - 'Black Balloon'
21. Sky Larkin - 'Antibodies'
22. Passion Pit - 'Sleepyhead'
23. Blk Jks - 'Lakeside'
24. Doves - 'Compulsion'
25. Franz Ferdinand - 'No You Girls'
26. Morrissey - 'I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris'
27. Sparks - 'I Can't Believe That You Would Fall for All the Crap in This Song'
28. Jack Penate - 'Tonight’s Today'
29. Sufjan Stevens - 'You Are The Blood'
30. Mastodon - 'Crack The Skye'
31. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - 'Far Pavillions'
32. Dananananaykroyd - '1993'
33. Micachu and the Shapes - 'Calculator'
34. Wavves - 'So Bored'
35. Animal Collective - 'My Girls'
36. TV on the Radio - 'Make Love All Night Long'
37. Friendly Fires - 'Skeleton Boy' (Air France Remix)
38. White Lies - 'To Lose My Life' - 'Filthy Dukes Remix
39. La Roux - 'In For The Kill' - 'Skream's Lets Get Ravey remix
40. The Horrors - 'Sea Within A Sea'

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DiScuss: Love it? Hate it? Too obvious? Surprised by the inclusion/exclusion of anything? Two too many Animal Collective tracks? Basically, tell us what we should have added to this playlist (obviously we were limited a little by what is and isn't available on _Spotify) and make a better playlist and link it in the comments below..._