Just when you thought you had left 2022 in the rearview mirror, ridin’ full throttle into the daunting new order 2023 has to offer, some bozo with bourbon in hand jumps out like some mid-2000s jumps-scare on speed to remind y’all of all the awesome tunes which made the previous 12 months bearable. Just like said jump-scare very little consideration has gone into how much this inconveniences you, nor does it frankly care; 2023 has proven to be one laced in ennui while simultaneously hurtling at warp-speed toward oblivion faster than any of us can say “holy shit isn’t that Love Gang record grand!”, and as February peers from under the bed with insidious eyes maybe shielding our eyes with the quilt all those damn fine records made out of 2022 isn’t so much of a bad thing?
A full Top 40 article is in the works, but for now tune in to the playlist below to count down Your Buddy Ibex’s Top 100 records of the year. The following are choice cuts from those records, and not a representation of the Top 100 SONGS of the Year – such a list would be totally unrecognisable from the one you see before you today!
La Querma; Lunavieja – Lunavieja (Spinda Records / Quebranta Records)
Sweet Tea, Banana Bread; Green Hog Band – Crypt of Doom (The Swamp Records)
The Future of the Past; Gramma Vedetta – The Hum of the Machine (Mandrone Records)
Redeemer; Fostermother – The Ocean (Ripple Music)
Elden; Gaupa – Myriad (Nuclear Blast)
Death to the Red Sun; Earthless – Night Parade of One Hundred Demons (Nuclear Blast)
Devastator; Hebi Katana – Impermanence (Argonauta Records)
Waste of Mind; Void Moon – Waste of Mind (Obelisk Polaris Productions)
The Future of Mankind; Godzilla in the Kitchen – Exodus (Argonauta Records)
Diablo IV – Mammoth Volume – The Cursed Who Perform the Larvagod Rites (Blues Funeral Recordings)
Dig Your Own Grave; The Crooked Whispers – Last Call From Hell (Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records)
Erotic Pleasures in the Catacombs; Fulanno – Last Call From Hell (Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records)
Dead and Gone; LáGoon – Bury Me Where I Drop (Electric Valley Records)
Crisco Kid; Smoke Wizzzard – Faster Than the Speed of Time (Self-Released)
Templed of Drugged Sorceries; Black Spell – Season of the Damned (Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records)
Atomic Tide; Red Mess – Breathtaker (All Good Clean Records)
Relentless; Las Cruces – Cosmic Tears (Ripple Music)
Get Life; Acid Row – Afterglow (Self-Released)
Sandstorm; High Noon Kahuna – Killing Spree (Self-Released)
The Observer; Dirt Forge – Interspheral (Majestic Mountain Records)
Omniscient Messiah; Sons of Arrakis – Volume I (Self-Released)
(Realise) We Are Not Real; Josiah – We Lay on Cold Stone (Blues Funeral Recordings)
Have Mercy, Show Mercy; Problem With Dragons – Accelerationist (Global Zero Records)
Scum Like You; Come to Grief – When the World Dies (Translation Loss Records)
Telescope; Howard – Event Horizon (Delta Fuzz Electronics)
The Taker; The Riven – Peace and Conflict (The Sign Records)
Hateful Hate, I’ll Kill You; Black Mirrors – Tomorrow Will be Without Us (Napalm Records)
Chariot of the Sun – To Phaeton on the Occasion of Sunrise (Theme from an Imagined Movie); Motorpsycho – Ancient Astronauts (Stickman Records / Rune Grammfon)
The Spiral; Kryptograf – The Eldorado Spell (Apollon Records)
Uncharted Realms; Greenseeker – The Wish (StoneFly Records)
Eye of Doom Pt. 1; Eye of Doom – The Sapient (Majestic Mountain Records)
Tornet XVI; Tornet – Domedagar (Majestic Mountain Records)
Running Man; Zom – Fear and Failure (StoneFly Records)
Sword on Fire; Horehound – Collapse (Blackseed Records)
Pesak; Gavran – Indistinct Beacon (dunk!records)
Awaken; Black Lung – Dark Waves (Heavy Psych Sounds)
The Knowing; Mount Saturn – O, Great Moon (Self-Released)
Jaguar; Kurokuma – Born of Obsidian (Self-Released)
Shepherds on the Roadside; Vitskär Süden – The Faceless King (Ripple Music)
Existential Blues; Nebula – Transmission from Mothership Earth (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Luciferian Rite; Hazemaze – Blinded by the Wicked (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Godkiller; Green King – Hidden Beyond Time (The Sign Records)
Take Me Out; Deadeye Navigator – Retronoid (Self-Released)
Sinensis; Grave Lines – Communion (New Heavy Sounds)
The Black Shard; Cities of Mars – Cities of Mars (Ripple Music)
As Fast As Lightning; Kamel Toast – Proper Milling (Self-Released)
Star Collider; AAWKS – (HEAVY ON THE COSMIC) (Black Throne Productions)
Today!; Strange Highways – Strange Highways (Self-Released)
Slab City; Near Dusk – Through the Cosmic Fog (Iron Head Records)
Bone Dust; The Otolith – Folium Limina (Blues Funeral Recordings)
The Pressure’s On; The Hellacopters – Eyes of Oblivion (Nuclear Blast)
Rubedo; Messa – Close (Svart Records)
Boogie Man; Robot God – Worlds Collide (Lunar Mountain Records)
The Unholy Ceremony; Hydra – Beyond Life and Death (Piranha Music)
Deathwish 1970; Ecstatic Vision – Elusive Mojo (Heavy Psych Sounds)
In A Rainbow With Friends; CB3 – Exploration (Majestic Mountain Records)
Violate Consensus Reality; Psychonaut – Violate Consensus Reality (Pelagic Records)
A Million Beers; Stöner – Totally (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Nordic Funeral; Grave Bathers – Rock ‘n’ Roll Fetish (Seeing Red Records)
White Picket Blues; Black Tongue Reverend – All of Them Have Fangs (Self-Released)
Feed On Me; Samsara Joyride – Samsara Joyride (Whalesplash Records)
Golden Path; Freebase Hyperspace – Planet High (StoneFly Records)
The Universe Is Mine; Cosmic Debris – Cosmic Debris (Self-Released)
Stones Blues Machine; Geezer – Stoned Blues Machine (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Fistful of Grass; Electric Mountain – Valley Giant (Electric Valley Records)
Voyager; Sasquatch – Fever Fantasy (Mad Oak Records)
Cup O’ Rosie (Just Another Groovy Thing); Blue Rumble – Blue Rumble (Self-Released)
Curse the Light; Early Moods – Early Moods (Ridin’ Easy Records)
Dawn of Days; Bort – The Wreck of the Hesperus (Carhole Records)
Notes from the Post Colonial; Troll Teeth – Hanged, Drawn, & Quartered (Electric Talon Records)
Silver; Somali Yacht Club – The Space (Seasons of Mist)
Dunes of Mars; Mezzoa – Dunes of Mars (Iron Head Records)
The Chariot; Valley of the Sun – The Chariot (Ripple Music / Fuzzorama Records)
Voyage\\The Great Sea; The Same River – Weight of the World (Sliptrick Records)
Rainbird; Psychlona – Palo Verde (Psycho Waxx)
Planet Cancer; Flummox – Rephlummoxed (Needlejuice Records)
Stormbreaker Suite; Behold! The Monolith – From the Fathomless Deep (Ripple Music)
The Buck; Blue Heron – Ephemeral (Desert Records)
Diamond in the Devil’s Grinder; Greenbeard – Variant (Sailor Records)
Of Treachery and Shadows; Everest Queen – Murmurations (Trepenation Recordings)
En El Camino; Inche Kai Che – Inche Kai Che (The Place)
Worship the Void; Warlung – Vulture’s Paradise (Heavy Psych Sounds)
I’m Still High; Lucid Grave – Cosmic Mountain (Electric Valley Records)
Black Days; El Perro – Hair Of (Alive Naturalsound)
Keep an Eye on Me; Cachemira – Ambos Mundos (Heavy Psych Sounds)
I Revere; Moon Tooth – Phototroph (Pure Noise Records)
Run for Your Life; Sun Voyager – Sun Voyager (Ripple Music)
Zombie Barricade – Mexicoma – Kalpa (Majestic Mountain Records)
Overworlder; Wo Fat – The Singularity (Ripple Music)
Pestilence; JIRM – The Tunnel, The Well, Holy Bedlam (Ripple Music)
Desert of Madness; 10’000 Years – III (Death Valley Records)
We All Need Rock ‘n’ Roll; Freedom Hawk – Take All You Can (Ripple Music)
Space; Great Rift – Utopia (Stonefree Records)
Revvelator; Red Sun Atacama – D A R W I N (Mrs Red Sound)
Ancestors; Steak – Acute Mania (Ripple Music)
See You at the End of the World; Path of Might – Deep Chrome (Encapsulated Records)
Regenerator; King Buffalo – Regenerator (Stickman Records)
Paradise; Besvärjelsen – Atlas (Magnetic Eye Records)
Bull Moose Against the Sky; Caustic Casanova – Glass Enclosed Nerve Center (Magnetic Eye Records)
Endless Return; Elder – Innate Passage (Stickman Records)
Foreigner; Sergeant Thunderhoof – This Sceptred Veil (Pale Wizard Records)
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