Each month, DiS compiles a playlist featuring our tunes of the month and a few tracks to compliment this month's editorial. This compilation is usually about an hour-long but there's so much good stuff out that this month's playlist is over two hours long, and we've still probably forgotten some things we loved.

From the return of shoegaze heroes Slowdive to the discovery of the gorgeous sound of ambiproggypsychfolkdrone artist William Ryan Fritch, it's fair to say that May has been a rather splendid month. Throw in the incredible new album from Sharon Van Etten (which is coming out on Monday), combined with great new records from Swans, Lykke Li, Owen Pallett, Yann Tiersen and lots more, it's possible to say that May might set the high watermark for the year.

Playlist

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Tracklisting

Sharon Van Etten – Every Time the Sun Comes Up
Slowdive – When The Sun Hits
Lykke Li – Gunshot
Ed Harcourt – In My Time Of Dust
Son Lux – Easy (Switch Screens) [feat. Lorde]
Owen Pallett – Song For Five & Six
Douglas Dare – Swim
Tori Amos – 16 Shades Of Blue
The Antlers – Palace
Yann Tiersen – Slippery Stones
The Anchoress – What Goes Around
Thumpers – Tame
Röyksopp & Robyn – Do It Again
Trentemøller – Deceive feat. Sune Rose Wagner
Ben Frost – Venter
William Ryan Fritch – Weightless
A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Minuet for a Cheap Piano Number One
Allen Toussaint – St. James Infirmary
Swans – A Little God In My Hands
Conor Oberst – Zigzagging Toward the Light
Woods – Moving to the Left
Joanna Gruesome – Lemonade Grrrl
Fear of Men – Green Sea
Her Name Is Calla – It Was Flood
The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Vad Hände Med Dem?
Oasis – Slide Away - Remastered

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