Year's best video

I have the feeling many more people will be falling in love with the Decemberists in the coming days.
It's all to do with the Portland, Ore. band's new video, for the single "16 Military Wives." You can see it here.
In a way, I am a bit sad that this great indie band will be gaining greater fame. One of the joys of being a true music snob is loving artists that no one around you has even heard about. That's what makes being a snob so... snobbish.
On the other hand, I am overjoyed. Colin Meloy's band have become successively better with each release, refuse to "dummy down" their sound for the masses, continue to produce some of the catchiest music you will ever hear and have yet to follow Death Cab for Cutie onto the soundstages of television dramas for teenagers.
So rock on, Decemberists.