I know it's only April but my favourite thing about this board is getting to December and going, 'Right, I'm going to let the DiS music crew update me on the past year's excellent music which I was too lazy / not cool enough to find myself when it actually came out.' Anyone care to proffer their take on the year so far?

Mine is looking a little, ah, pallid at the moment: http://open.spotify.com/user/thesmallerpicture/playlist/79oob4e1Ob8tDJWOacpcrz