
Previously as part of the Gremmy Awards I released a big list of every surf release that I had come across in the past year. This year I decided to keep it as a rolling, consistently updated list. It's less fun at the end of the year, but it's more helpful this way.
A few things to note:
- Must have been released in 2023.
- Inclusion on this list does not mean that I've listened to it.
- Exclusion from this list could mean I don't know about it, that I haven't updated it yet, or it could be an error! Either way, contact me!
- Bolded means I've reviewed it.
- I don't include single song releases. It's just too much to keep track of.
- First issues only unless it's been years since the first issue. What I'm trying to say is, if your album came out digitally in 2022 but vinyl came out in 2023, I consider that a 2022 release.
- My definition of an LP means either 8 songs or a half hour of music. I have to draw the line somewhere! Also if a band calls an album an EP despite fulfilling those requirements, I call it an EP.
- Must be at least 50% instrumental.
- I try to be generous, but my defintion of surf is ultimately my own.
LPs
- Beach Moonsters - Walk Like a Moonster
- Ben Rogers' Instrumental Asylum - Splash Landing
- Boom Pam - Royal
- Cosmic Mud - Nowheremansland
- Daikaiju - Phase 3
- Danger!! Death Ray - DEVASTATION
- Docteur Legume et les Surfwerks - La Celere
- El Borko - ¡Surf!
- El Capitan & The Reluctant Sadists - The Satanic Sounds of
- Escola dos Maus Costumes - Escola dos Maus Costumes
- Footstep Surf Music Band - Live Cervejoteca Surf Party
- Gold Tokens - The Hottest Day of the Year
- Gorilla Escapes - Gorilla Escapes
- Krankaput - 9KBLM
- Les Panches Surfer - La Balasera
- Los Gargarins - Kryptokosmos
- Mamphibian - Sunrise
- Now That's What I Call Surf - Volume 2
- Pacific Witch - Relics Only
- El Papu & Los Fantásticos Reverberantes - Al Ritmo del Oleaje
- Pollo Del Mar - Speed of Dark
- Raul Malo - Say Less
- Rudeigin Eile - Surf Noir
- Satan's Pilgrims - Thomas Lauderdale meets The Pilgrims
- Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra - Surf the Web
- Shrimp Chaperone - Trilobyte Weekend
- Spacecramp - Bob Fantasy
- Stein - The Lost Horse
- The Atlantics - Still Making Waves
- The Atom Jacks - 100 Seconds (4/14)
- The Beyonderers - Live in Akron
- The Biarritz Boys - Inside Clean Waves
- The Bomboras - Songs From Beyond!
- The Chantays - A Dawning Sun
- The Clams - Ceviche
- The Dangermen - Tranquille Shore
- The Desolate Coast - Without a Planet
- The Doltones - Sound Recycle Machine
- The Insanitizers - Insane Knot Tie Soars
- The Killifish - First Fish in Space
- The Squadron Leaders - Crash/Burn
- The Sloptones - Slough Raider Ploy
- The SurfAnauts - WarmUp
- The Surfcrusters - Sartana procura vingança pelo genocidio Yanomami
- The Surfer Novas - Radio Galaxy
- The Tentakills - Rage of Aquarius
- The Terrorsurfs - From the Jaws of Hell
- The Wankats - No Wave in Town
- The Weisstronauts - Hamming It Down
- Total Quality Movement - Breathless: Vol 1 SurfWave
- Trio Koko - Taruko II
- Unkle Kook - Coming in Bunches
- Wanted Man - Channels Volume One
- Zako - 1
EPs and Mini-LPs
- Culebra & Thee Surf Evolution School - Deep West
- Danyaal - Boardwalk Bop, Vol. 1
- Diego Fedora - Make More Noise
- Domagoj Škara - Whips of the Navajo
- F. Matthew Burns - Anomolous Horizons
- Hughie Landshark and the Sandblasters - There is a Time For Panic
- Hughie Landshark and the Sandblasters - Dread Symphony
- Ichi-Bons - Ich-i-bon #1
- Intergalactic Surfers - Surf of the Dead
- Kincaid and the Memetics - Flightless Birds
- Kincaid and the Memetics - Sunny Disposition
- Kitten and the Tonics - Painkiller
- Lazer Gun Saloon - Yeti Sasquatch
- Little Kahuna - Lost Oasis
- Lituma - Escalofríos
- Las Hormiguitas - Alona
- Los Ahorcados - s/t
- Los A-Tunes - Cabos Sueltos
- Los Coyotes Muertos - La Venganza
- Los Manolitos - Surfadelic
- Lost Acapulco - Y Su Tormenta Monstruo-Mental
- Los Tiros - El Excesivo
- Los Vaccine - Советские мультфильмы 2
- Luke Skywalker and the Eggs - Surfin' 2
- Mamvt - DSL
- Manta Manta & Utra Beach Bar Boys - Outback Kick Out / Jade Coast Afterglow
- Mark Malibu & the Wasagas - Hellbent For Speed EP
- Messer Chups - Night Stripper
- Minor Mirage - Gray Area
- Murciélago Surf Band - Crazy Misirlou
- Nuclear Juarez - Dogstar
- Northern Tides - Northern Tides
- Panty Tsunami - Panty Tsuanmi Strikes Again
- Papa Surf - Mr Sinister
- Pozor Vlak - Bunga Bunga Party
- Quetzal Tenago - Sorry mama, I’m possessed by surf! EP
- Rangers - Apache EP
- Resonadores - Republica Banana
- Robotron - Live Set 2023
- Shoreline Dreamers - Mild Peril!
- Solar Idolater - Bonfire
- SPF1985 - Surf on the Beach
- Spy Penguin - Not bad for a Tuesday
- Squad Surf Club - Noël Mexicain
- Surf Cult - Beach Noir
- Surf! Terror! Panic! - Coolophonic Board-Donking
- Surfmaster - Let it Be.... Surf Guitar
- Swamp Ape - Frozen River
- Sys Malakian - Live at Katz Studios
- Terror Noturno - ainda é cedo
- Terror Noturno - depois da meia noite
- The Abyssal Lurkers - The Kraken Wakes
- The Almighty Devil Dogs - Autorama
- The Atom Jacks - Mirage IV / Uranium
- The Atom Jacks - MiG Diplomacy / Fragnet
- The Babaloonies - Winternationals
- The Breakers - Monster Storm
- The Del Roswells - Death From Above
- The Dirty Licks - Masters of the Electrical Internet
- The Eerie - Psychlops
- The Humidity - It's Not the Heat, It's...
- The Krontjong Devils - Los Krontjong Devils Tocan Surf Súper Seco
- The Obsidians - Notre Histoire
- The Pseudos - Surf Bozos: 30 Years of Surf Rock
- The Rangers - the Cruel Sea EP
- The Rangers - Skylab EP
- The Rasputones - Demos
- The Rottingtons - Third Creek, Pts. 1 & 2
- The Silhouettes - Fire of Love
- The Surfing Robbers - Tropicalia
- The Surfisticats - The Surfisticats Strut
- Tranes - Slalom
- The Tridents - Fiat Panda Escape Sequence
- Tsunamish - Amigos Adios!
- ULTRATEEZY - The Invasion Begins!
- Waikiki Makaki - Lost Diver
- Wraang! - Bigote de Leche
- Волны Советов - ИА "Волны Советов" исполняет песни ВИА "Гражданская Оборона"
- Волны Советов - Магнитные поля
Compilations
- Robert Johnson & the Punchdrunks - Solna, Texas (1992-2022)
- Triple Agent Records Vol. IV
- Takeshi Terauchi - Eleki Bushi 1966-1974
- Surfin' The Great Lakes: Kay Bank Studio Surf Sides of the 1960s
Upcoming
These are all announced, upcoming releases to expect in 2023.
- Thalasses - Anabasis (5/5)
- The Akulas - Inundated Land (6/9)
- Magnatech - An Evening with Magnatech EP (May/June)
- Lords of Atlantis - S/T (June)
- Shorty's Swingin' Coconuts - Surf Shack Shindig (6/9)
- Christopher Gilson - Peckeroo Surf (7/5)
- Magnatech - Herr Magnatech Bittet Zum Tanz (October/November)
- The Scimitars - ? (6/23)
- Operation Octopus - The Space Pheasant (?)
- The Surf Hermits - ? (May)
- King Pelican - Volume 2 (?)
- Surfoniani - Greatest Surf Hits (?)
- Los Grainers - ? (?)
- Langhorns - ? (?)
- The Nebulas - ? (?)
- Draculina - ? (?)
- The Madeira - Archipelago: The Best of The Madeira (?)
- Test Subject 17 - ? (?)
- The Jagaloons - ? (?)
- Surf You Next Tuesday Vol. 3 (?)
- Draculina - ? (?)