The Best of 2023: Early Cut

Still a few weeks left in December, but I got impatient and burned myself an early cut of my annual year-end mix. The impatience seems justified, as there's an awful lot of great music in 2023. While I have double-CD annual mixes dating back to 1966 (no, I didn't make the mix as a baby, but eventually circled back and built out the catalog), the last two years I just stuck with single-CD versions. 2023, though, is definitely gonna take 160 minutes (especially once I make the usual belated discov...