Albums

Album essays and annotated tracklists for Scoobert Doobert (Luke Francis Walton) and related projects. Tracks link to song meanings where annotations exist. Standalone singles and cycle status live in the catalog; collaborators and production clients are indexed at Collaborators.

• DEBUT OKAME · 2026 · 8 annotated OKAME first album (Feb 2026), eight tracks of Nostalpop from ex-CHAI twins MANA and KANA; mixed by Luke Francis Walton, built from three monthly singles into “the answer that is right for us now.”
• US Scoobert Doobert · 2025 · in progress · 17 annotated Third turn of the MÖBIUS cycle, in progress: chapter EPs on streaming now, full LP still being built.
• applied communications has a midlife crisis applied communications · 2024 · 5 annotated April 2024 comeback EP by Max Wood (Applied Communications), five alt-pop songs on depression, gender dysphoria, and self-acceptance; mixed by Scoobert Doobert, mastered by Riley Knapp.
• I Scoobert Doobert · 2024 · 13 annotated A 2024 coastal-travel pop LP and the second released turn of the planned MÖBIUS cycle: trains, hikes, Japan, California water, love songs, field recordings, and a lofi/hi-fi studio palette built to make everything sing.
• A Very Doobert Christmas, Vol. 1 Scoobert Doobert · 2023 · 6 annotated 2023 holiday EP: Luke original "Michael Bublé, My Santa Buddy," plus covers of "Jingle Bells" and "Winter Wonderland"; instrumental versions of each.
• MÖB Scoobert Doobert · 2023 · 11 annotated A 2023 pop/alt-pop LP and the first released turn of the planned four-part MÖBIUS cycle: internet anxiety, 90s memory, California heat, illness-shadowed survival, and the turn from beach-world into loop-world.
• MÖBIUS Scoobert Doobert · 2023 · in progress The four-part super-album in progress — one work told in turns: prophecy tag on Moonlight Beach, then MÖB, I, partial US, and a planned resolving LP.
• Moonlight Beach Scoobert Doobert · 2023 · 10 annotated A 2023 Encinitas beach-pop LP where Scoobert turns the post-KŌAN range into a physical place: hometown myth, surf/funk, covers, Japan still in the distance, and a live touring body.
• KŌAN Scoobert Doobert · 2022 · 25 annotated A 2022 four-part alt-pop koan: an EP cycle that only becomes legible as a whole, using Zen paradox, Japanese songwriting, spatial sound, and post-pandemic happiness as pieces of one unresolved question.
• Big Hug Scoobert Doobert · 2021 · 16 annotated The 2021 attention inflection point: a post-pandemic alt-pop LP where Scoobert’s weirdness becomes approachable enough for strangers to enter.
• Little Hug Scoobert Doobert · 2021 · 12 annotated A 2021 visual EP, often misfiled as an album: the small recovery object after Masks and Monsters, with real crickets in the room.
• Live from the Void Scoobert Doobert · 2021 · 8 annotated Eight live recordings (2021), pandemic-era Scoobert cuts performed and released as a standalone live set; not a visual album like earlier LPs.
• Plague Beats, Vol. 2 Scoobert Doobert · 2021 · 6 annotated May 2021 meme beat tape: loops, cringe, Among Us, shitty robots, six ~one-minute tracks, closer Woah Dude instrumental.
• Dragon Ball $d Scoobert Doobert · 2020 · 11 annotated The third-record pivot: a 2020 DBZ hip-hopera where cartoon chaos becomes a full narrative arc, with Babidi, Gokudaxij, and Nick Belcher.
• Masks and Monsters Scoobert Doobert · 2020 · 18 annotated The 2020 pandemic record: cartoon mythology as survival language, eighteen North Park tracks, and the first Scoobert album where the bit collides with adult reality.
• Plague Beats, Vol. 1 Scoobert Doobert · 2020 · 5 annotated September 2020 meme beat tape: oddly satisfying, decreasingly verbose, bread stapled to trees, birds with arms, cats are assholes twice, D&B pass instrumental.
• $WAMI$ Scoobert Doobert · 2018 · 16 annotated The 2018 lore dump after Finding SD: a free Bandcamp collage LP, bathrobe nostalgia wave, Encinitas beach weirdness, and a visual album with even more interludes.
• to sleep (EP) Scoobert Doobert · 2018 · 14 annotated December 2018 Bandcamp-only lofi hip-hop EP: improvised meditation on death, recorded in LA, mixed in Greenwich Village.
• Between Dreams Nina Francis · 2017 Nina Francis debut LP (Oct 7, 2017), 11 originals written by Francis; produced by Luke Walton and Brandon Woodward at Tiny Giant Recording; mixed and mastered by Frank Rosato. 2020 San Diego Music Awards Best Singer-Songwriter.
• Finding $D Scoobert Doobert · 2017 · 10 annotated The origin-point debut: every song written, recorded, mixed, and mastered in a single flu-haunted day, cartoon self-mythology as bedroom-pop and funk experimentation.
• Lot 17 Kerri Medders · 2017 · 1 annotated Kerri Medders sophomore EP (Apr 2017): Slipping, Cry Cry, Don't Give In, and a Whitney Houston cover; co-writer, producer, and instrumentalist Luke Francis Walton with Brandon Woodward.
• Heartquake Saga Hammer City · 2016 Hammer City: Heartquake Saga EP (Aug 2016): four-song rock release led by Nick Belcher (The Hammers). Luke Francis Walton recording engineer; public materials tie sessions to Tiny Giant Recording, mixing Frank Rosato.
• Little Homes FEiN · 2016 · 16 annotated A 2016 LA/SoCal alternative concept album by FEiN: Brandon Woodward and Luke Walton, where alt-rock, funk, hip-hop rhythm, theatrical pop arranging, and social satire turn “little homes” into a map of American denial.
• 413 Exist Elsewhere · 2013 · 4 annotated Exist Elsewhere’s 2013 EP: Luke Francis Walton, Brandon Woodward, Noah Benardout, and Nick Petrou; Kinect-shot Tokyo video and four-part harmonies at USC Thornton.
• Goodbye/Hello The Luke Walton Band · 2010 · 11 annotated The Luke Walton Band’s 2010 self-released LP (~35:05), eleven tracks per archived lukewaltonband.com; after solo EPs and Luke Walton feat. Blue Suburbia’s The Other Side (2009).
• The Other Side Luke Walton feat. Blue Suburbia · 2009 · 4 annotated 2009 EP by Luke Walton feat. Blue Suburbia, four blues tracks (~17:40) between solo EP Heart in Hand and The Luke Walton Band LP Goodbye/Hello.
• Heart in Hand Luke Walton · 2008 · 4 annotated Early archive — 2008 self-released solo EP from Luke Walton’s teenage songwriter period (~13:00, four tracks).
• Just A Friend Luke Walton · 2006 · 6 annotated Early archive — 2006 self-released solo EP from Luke Walton’s teenage songwriter period (~17:40, six tracks).