Sam Hoffman

“Glencrest Lane” & “All the Places”

scum stats: one sided lathe-cut, limited edition of 40 copies

Are you old enough yet to have had your “Losing My Edge” moment where "the kids are coming up from behind”?

Well, this may be my personal “Losing My Edge” moment.

Sam Hoffman, former Third Man Records employee, best known for being a huge fan of cringe and a quasi-known creator of Instagram memes, has put in his hard work in the Beatles-influenced salt mines and extracted these…chunks of salt?

Just to get it out of the way…Beatles Beatles Beatles Beatles. Yeah, he digs ‘em and could probably beat you and McCartney in a game of Fab Four trivia.

But being a hardcore fan and being able to execute to the level of that which you are a fan are diagrams that very seldom Venn together. Yet Hoffman absolutely the perfect intersection of these two orbs.

I think of Sam as a “kid” but I honestly am not even really sure how old he is. I believe he graduated college, but not TOO long ago. Early twenties maybe? Old enough to function in society, and yet young enough to still make me feel old. That’s gotta be a very specific age.

Crisp production, smart songwriting, skilled instrumentation…I’m really at a loss for anything to criticize here. A bummed feeling I wasn’t part of it? A sadness that I’ve still never properly released a lathe-cut record? A sense of my own impending mortality?

THIS IS THE KIND OF PURE MUSIC THAT IS WORTH YOUR TIME AND MONEY AND SUPPORT.

In my effort to support, I bought two copies of this. I’m giving away the spare to someone here. Post in the comments. Can be anything. A shorty story about when you first felt old, a joke, a Beatles-inspired haiku, math equations, whatever. The comment that sparks the most joy in me wins this record.

And if you don’t win the record, just be a decent human being and buy a copy of this single. It’s probably close to being sold out anyway, so hop to it.