Hip Young Gunslinger’s head honcho, S, picks his favourite tracks & albums of 2023.
Top 20 Tracks
| Song | Artist |
| 1. You don’t even know who I am | underscores |
| 2. Notre Dame Made out of Flesh | UNIVERSITY |
| 3. Los Angeles | Lol Tolhurst & Jacknife Lee & Budgie Feat. James Murphy |
| 4. Barley | Water From Your Eyes |
| 5. It Must Change | ANOHNI |
| 6. It’s Just a Bit of Blood | bdrmm |
| 7. Good Girl | Jockstrap |
| 8. Census Designated | Jane Remover |
| 9. Exposed to Some Light | Nightbus |
| 10. The World’s Biggest Paving Slab | English Teacher |
| 11. Joy (Guilt) | dust |
| 12. Days Move Slow | Bully |
| 13. Ruby on the Run | Oracle Sisters |
| 14. Pod | Snõõper |
| 15. Dancer | IDLES |
| 16. Parasite | Coach Party |
| 17. Killing Bee | yunè pinku |
| 18. Thump | Benefits |
| 19. I Play My Bass Loud | Gina Birch |
| 20. Kisses | Slowdive |
Top 20 Albums
| Album | Artist |
| 1. Everyone’s Crushed | Water From Your Eyes |
| 2. Rat Saw God | Wednesday |
| 3. Thank God We Left The Garden | Jeffrey Martin |
| 4. Girl with Fish | feeble little horse |
| 5. I Inside the Old Year Dying | PJ Harvey |
| 6. My Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross | ANOHNI |
| 7. MID AIR | Paris Texas |
| 8. the record | boygenius |
| 9. Love In Exile | Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily |
| 10. Wallsocket | underscores |
| 11. I Don’t Know | bdrmm |
| 12. A Living Commodity | Egyptian Blue |
| 13. Dead Meat | The Tubs |
| 14. The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte | Sparks |
| 15. Jarak Qaribak | Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood |
| 16. Dance Till All the Stars Come Down | The Lilac Time |
| 17. Goodbye, Hotel Arkada | Mary Lattimore |
| 18. First Two Pages of Frankenstein | The National |
| 19. Space Heavy | King Krule |
| 20. The Ballad Of Darren | Blur |