Ah, June, the smell of freshly cut grass hiding the stench of your wellies that you've fished out for a weekend of marching around in the quagmire.

With summer solstice fast approaching, we thought it time for our half-year reflection period to begin in earnest. Over the coming weeks we'll be listing, ranking and chatting about the year so far... To kick things off, here's the seventh episode of our podcast which does what it says on the tin.

Q1 2016 in Review: Podcast & Playlist

The best albums, songs and DiScoveries of Jan, Feb and March 2016 as chosen by Drowned in Sound's editor Sean Adams and our podcast co-host Absolute Radio's Danielle Perry. The episode features David Bowie, School of Seven Bells, Deftones, The 1975, The Kills, and more.

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Listen to this podcast as a playlist commentary with tracks in full over on Spotify.

You can also listen to this episode with clips of the tracks on iTunes, SoundCloud, MixCloud and more.

Our Q2 episode is to follow soon.

Tracks from the albums discussed on our podcast in order:

Ablaze by School of Seven Bells
Girl Loves Me by David Bowie
Doing It To Death by The Kills
Only Child by Shearwater
Something Else by The 1975
Under The Sun by Diiv
Unstitch by Anna Rose Carter
Big Ideas by The Boxer Rebellion
Prayers / Triangles by Deftones
Hands by The Duke Spirit
Breadandbutter by El Perro Del Mar

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