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I now learned I am not a mature indie pop kid. Good to know

I wasn’t home Sunday so I didn’t make crepes which means I missed your video as your videos pair perfectly with crepes and Mrs Butterworth syrup. No doubt you have been told that quite a bit. Really liked the sound of Delivery and Prism Shores. I’m pretty excited about Canada joining the US, I have spent a lot of time patrolling the shores of the Great Lakes stopping people from swimming over to our awesome nation. This should give me some more free time

Would prefer you showed all the Chinese, Thai or regional LPs. Love the artwork, pictures on those

Joanna Gruesome, one of the great band names. Also, I dig (a pony) your t-shirt. I'm old, I found The Gentle Spring enjoyable. I also liked Ex-Void. Lots to check out. Please keep up the Douche-a-sodes. (Not sure of the spelling) I heard the same thing, the bit about Canada becoming the 51st state, what a pity that would be, for Canada.

Hi Sam, another stellar episode. I received my Prism Shores LP last Friday and really enjoying it, also dig their debut! I’m excited to get the new Ex-void record too. I will check out the others. Cheers! Matt

Awesome stereolab shirt!

Sam, how can we miss you if you don't go away? Great to have you back. I enjoyed the Delivery. I think at times their accents and their sometimes mundane subject matter made me think a little of Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever. I'm also enjoying the upcoming Sharp Pins record. It's not coming out for a while but you can basically hear the whole record (minus two songs) on Bandcamp now. If Canada is forcibly yoked to the United States, I expect Prism Shores to flee to Thailand, too.

Last I heard, our new country Green Canapanama is absorbing California, Oregon, Washington State and Vermont ;) A rare time (and I mean rare) where I was already aware of two of the four bands your featuring. I listened to Delivery - Force Majeure on a long walk this past Friday. Prism Shores happened to be the first of two bands that opened for Quivers when I saw them back in October 2024. I've grabbed myself versions of Ex-Vöid - In Love Again and The Gentle Spring - Looking Back at the World as they both sounded promising. Myself, I have been enjoying the initial singles from Dropkick's upcoming Primary Colours album as well as the three new singles from Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory. Both of these albums (along with FACS - Wish Defense to complete the trifecta...I'm sure you're aware) are due out February 7th, so I'm looking forward to these. Welcome back!

Canada says No! Remember we invented Douching, and our military would last a whole weekend before being overwhelmed by the aggressive use of firepower, but think of the stories we would tell! I would like access to American shipping prices however as our dollar is in the toilet. I think Montreal and Quebec would hold out the longest, maybe an extra day

I wasn't aware of Ex-Vöid or Prism Shores, but loved the samples from the video--gonna give them a listen. Not sure if you felt this way, but yesterday (1/17) had an overwhelming amount of new releases. Did you have the Alpaca Sports or Luther Russell albums on your radar at all?

I think Uncle Sam is taking this 51st state thing one day at a time. Greenland, however, is on the fast track. I would recommend taking your motorcycle riding one day at a time. Extremely dangerous...

I've come to really value your recommendations. All of these sound awesome. Good luck, Canada 🙏

Cool looking store. Nice flip through. Cheers

Yep, a flippin' video. Cute young woman across the way from you flippin' as well.

I'd love to go through that entire place and organize every record - alphabetically. Whose kok do you gotta Bang to find the Weezer records??

are you planning on being state-side in 2025? Your AZ records are probably all melted...

Goodwill be damned.

Hi…have you made it to Wua Lau Records in Chang Mai yet?

2:42 already missed a super rare awesome record yikes

This was a great listen. There were quite a few that I still haven't listened to. You're right, it's so hard to get to everything, there is SO much music being released constantly these days. Thanks for your lists. Here's mine: 1. The Joy Hotel- "Ceremony" 2. Francis of Delirium- "Lighthouse" 3. Lizzy McAlpine- "Older" 4. Father John Misty- "Mahashmashana" 5. Josh Garrels- "Seek Hi Seek Lo" 6. The Lemon Twigs- "A Dream is All We Know" 7. Vampire Weekend- "Only God Was Above Us" 8. Aquilus- "Bellum II" 9. Fontaines D.C.- "Romance" 10. Zach Bryan- "The Great American Bar Scene" 11. Arooj Aftab- "Night Reign" 12. The Cure- "Songs Of A Lost World" 13. Kacey Musgraves- "Deeper Well" 14. Caligula's Horse- "Charcoal Grace" 15. Benjamin Francis Leftwich- "Some Things Break" 16. The Dead Tongues- "Body of Light" 17. Imminence- "The Black" 18. The Black Crowes- "Happiness Bastards" 19. Dangermuffin- "Dangermuffin" 20. Ubiquity- "The Ascendant Travels Among the Stars" I heard my #1 on the last day of the year! Crazy when that happens :)

Wow very good shop, in my small town there’s only one record shop and it doesn’t even compare to this literally so small, I’d go there almost everyday if I was u

Also a very good Indie release. Mannequin Pussy - I got heaven (Epitaph)

You both reference Teenage Fanclub a few times. Now I ask you, how cool is that? Love both Mammoth Penguins and Mo Dotti as well as several others. 72 minutes is way too long, 29 minutes is way too short, 40 -42 minutes perfect for both vinyl and cd, just my unsolicited opinion. Jangly/Twangy/Cool Noise video. Thank you, gentlemen.

you should really check out and possibly make a video on the album Urban Twilight by Oeil. It's another shoegaze album from like 2007 made by japanese artists. I really love both them and Asobi Seksu! I'd say my favorite song from urban twilight is strawberry cream but honestly, every song from that album I loved in unique and different ways.

I think you have phenomenal taste in music, and I am happy to have found your channel. I fell in love with the band Friko in 2024, and listening to Thee Oh Sees actually helped get rid of a clog I had in my inner ear for a couple years. Cleared it right up. Everything sounds better now. Keep rockin’. 🤘✌️

I love Fake Fruit’s new album, and their song No Mutuals from their 2021 album is awesome. The other bands listed here are a no for me.

Very well done, Thanks!

It's eerily similar to Jamaican reggae in the mid to late 70s. It seemed common then to get LPs that had 10-12 tracks, but only ran for 25-35 minutes, but 12" singles would often have the main track, an extended version with a toast (rap) and a dub version that would run for 40 minutes.

I wonder how many people thought they were buying an Eels album called 'Being Dead' 😁

Ok, here's a quick French lesson for you Americans who aren't forced to do French in school, like us Brits. Heure is French for hour. The French tend to not pronounce h, so heure is pronounced eure (somewhere between er, and ur). L' is a contraction of le (or la, depending on the gender they've assigned something. Hours are apparently masculine.) So l'heure is simply pronounced leure (ler/ lur). If you'd ignored the apostrophe and the H, your pronunciation would have been correct.

Great list!

Damn. What an absolutely incredible list you have here. A lot of bands I had not heard yet, but am stoked to nerd out. WOW. Great taste, man. Look forward to following along for more. Cheers 👊🏼

Thanks for the video guys! Enjoyed the contrasts between you two - I had been through Sam's top 75 (and picked up a bunch) but was not familiar with Wishy's Triple Seven - which seems pretty cool. Thanks for the tip. You raise an interesting point - how to balance the number of LPs i listen to versus those that I really listened to well. This was a terrible year in some senses - I bought a ridiculous number of new LPs but feel that I no longer listen to any of them enough to get more than a vague impression. As you both note, this seems to have root in both radio (8 yrs on a couple of smaller regional stations) and reviewing (much less). The other thing, which is possibly less encouraging, is that *maybe* they are not as capable of grabbing my attention....possible because of after decades of listening to new groups, its now much harder to 'light the fire' than it was years back. Dunno. Anyhow, really enjoyed the back and forth, as always.... cheers ps - the Alvilida LP would be pronounced "Say Day-Jah Lure" (french for "its already time").

I can honestly say for the first time ever, I own both number 1s. Though neither a "douche" or a snob, I have to say that I totally relate. In the past year or so, I've spent so much time looking for new music, that I almost never have time to enjoy the good stuff I find. I have a lot if unopened records. Personally, I blame the Douche--for that and my meat stick addiction. Great work, guys.

Since there weren't that many comments (yet)...after all of both of your efforts, it turns out I decided to leave a 'tome' of a comment (I wasn't planning on it...apologies in advance). I enjoyed your year-end summary and was happily surprised that you had...was it a 5 album overlap?...regardless of where they appeared. Therefore one of my takeaways will be: if you both liked these 5 titles, I will definitely give them a deeper dive (if I haven't already). I also really enjoyed the "debrief" at the tail-end; including the discussions about shorter albums (which I find welcome in the modern era). In the era of Reels, Shorts and TikTok etc, I think it's a response to shorter attention spans; both by the artists and the listeners. Those of us that try to "get to" as much new music as possible 'welcome' the shorter album template, with the caveat that the artists have boiled down their output to the strongest material (hopefully). Then something like the sprawling Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee gets released...which so far I was only listened to once in the background but found very strong...but 2 hours is a LOT to demand of a 2025 listener. It was interesting to hear each of your approaches to whittling down / bucketing your best of" lists, until in their ever changing states, you must commit to the ONE list. One phenomenon you did not mention, is all of the albums we discover in future years, that had we been aware of them, they would have easily topped our current lists. Factor in our own subjective experiences and the timing, that lead us to have a deep connection with some music, the whole exercise becomes futile. Lastly, I completely related to the discussion about essentially: music listening "balance". One simply cannot listen to everything that comes out; there's just too much new music being released. Everyone's situation is unique: level of interest, family, kids and other responsibilities. No matter how much time one has to devote to 'listening', there's always more output than one can find time for. I found myself thinking...can I ask Google's new Willow chip-based quantum computer to use its spooky predictive powers, to tell me what I'll end up liking, thus freeing me to listen to it more often. All to say, I too am endeavoring to find a new balance, so that I can still check out new bands/albums but also revisit the record already in my collection. Whenever I do go back to my collection, I seem content with what I did decide to acquire it in physical form (the good news), but always thinking (I need to spend more time listening to this). There's the rub...and there's probably a scientific name for this paradox...but....the more we try to add to our mental database, the less quality time we spend revisiting our favorites. I'll be 55 next month (age definitely plays into it), so I'm endeavoring (2nd time I use that word) to cut the fat"; slowly get my physical collection down to my "essentials" (which will also help finance my future "essentials"...another collecting dilemma) and try to be a bit more selective with the new 2025 albums I choose to check out. If you made it this far...Happy New Year to both of you.

Mammoth Penguins are Great, and they played in a minor festival at the northwest coast of western Norway, on a boat actually, @indiefjord, not far from beautiful Ålesund (have a son studying there!).

Talk about an alley oop. I like eggs.

This is crazy. I discovered you guys and closed out 2023 with your "best of" list from last year and here we are again. Some great choices in there.

Incredible you put this together. I missed a bunch of your videos this year, setting intentions to do better next year. Don't know how I missed there was a new Being Dead lp but just streamed it and its a must have. The Beak struck my fancy as did the band, just before Robber Robber who I didn't know. Well done!

Highlight of the Year

THIS is the ranking i needed! Thank you so much and keep the awesome work

The Being Dead album has been playing on a loop in my head for months now, i love it so much - playful but smart popcraft, crunchy in spots, heartfelt harmonizing in others, sometimes in the same song… Shocked not to see it on more yearend lists - definitely slept on. Cheers!

Thanks ❤

Great list Sam a lot I’ve heard and love others I still need to check out. Not sure of order but my top 10 would likely include Real Estate, Nada Surf, Quivers, Mt Misery, Chime School, Umbrellas, Ducks Ltd, Jim Nothing , Best Bets, EggS. Happy New Year! Matt

Thank you Mr VD for serving up a list where I get to explore for unfamiliar bands and songs, unlike with the lists of the usual suspects. My 5 fave tunes I've discovered here are Best Bets - Spooky Signals, Quivers - Pink Smoke, Humdrum - See Through You, The Reds Pinks & Purples - Too Late For An Early Grave, Marina Allen - Superreality (latter two pre-2024 but discovered here). Surprised Cuni didn't make it on.

Hi Sam, Thanks so much for taking the time to put together such an awesome list! Was surprised/pleased to see Mo Dotti at #1 - I have about 20 on your list (mainly due to your vids), but am really psyched to get another dozen or so. So much music, so little time.... Hope 2025 treats you well! Cheers!

I just wanted to thank you for the time and effort you devote to this. It must be a labor of love unless you have some meat stick endorsement deal you haven't disclosed. I watched this yesterday (Merry Christmas) and I told myself I wasn't going to react to anything outside the top 20. I do have thoughts about but I know you and the Snob are going to discuss it so I'll let it be. To be honest, I'm not sure if this was a good year or not. There were some records I really liked but I'm not sure if there were any super important bands of the future or if anyone, except me, will be listening to these records five years from now. Part of me enjoys having indie rock as a permanent subculture. But I'm not sure if any of these bands will ever break through to the mainstream and I don't know that's a reflection on the bands or the larger culture. Hmm. On the positive side, I'm looking forward to more entertaining videos in the new year.

Thanks, only list I need right here...now just need to find my beer and meat stick

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Great list Sam! Nothing better than showing artists that pretty much no one has heard of! Here’s my top 10 1) Fellini Felin- Oddy 2) Fazi- Folding Story 3) Soft Hearted Scientists-Waltz Of The Weekend 4) Junipers-Imaginary Friends 5) Yodelice-What’s The Cure? 6) Gwendoline-C’est A Moi Ca 7) Konstant-Unbandige Kinder 8) Elephant Stone-Back into the Dream 9) Post Industrial Boys-1971 10) Tim Bowness- Powder Dry Cheers!