Albums

Album essays and annotated tracklists for Scoobert Doobert, Luke F. Walton's primary music project, and the related projects around it. Tracks link out to song meanings where those notes exist. Standalone singles and where the Möbius cycle stands live in the catalog, and collaborators and production clients are on the Collaborators page.

• MÖBIUS Scoobert Doobert · planned The planned fourth and final turn of the MÖBIUS cycle (MÖB → I → US → MÖBIUS), meant to fold the Scoobert catalog back through itself. Burt Cashman and cawleen are characters on it and credited on it. No date, tracklist or credits announced.
• applied communications bites the big one applied communications · 2026 · 1 annotated September 25, 2026 LP by Max Wood (applied communications), nine tracks. Luke Francis Walton mixed; Riley Knapp mastered. Bandcamp Daily Album of the Day the day it came out. The selection is the album's.
• 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 · 2025–2027 · in progress · chapters began 2025 · LP January 2027 · 28 annotated Third turn of the MÖBIUS cycle. Full LP scheduled for January 2027. Current sequence is eleven songs; more may be added. Chapter EPs are already on streaming.
• 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.
• Refried Being Burrito Bot · 2024 Burrito Bot album, April 26, 2024: seven tracks, about nine minutes, on Beformer.
• Wrap Music Burrito Bot · 2024 Burrito Bot album, June 14, 2024: a 15-track AI burrito concept LP on Beformer. The cover was generated with Runway.
• 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.
• Moonlight Beach Scoobert Doobert · 2023 · 10 annotated A 2023 Encinitas beach-pop LP: Moonlight State Beach, surf/funk, covers, guests Bubby Lewis and Jamie Drake, Gonna Go to Japan, and Scoobert playing live.
• The MÖBIUS cycle Scoobert Doobert · 2023 · in progress The four-part cycle in progress, released in turns: MÖB, I, US (LP scheduled for January 2027), and a fourth LP titled MÖBIUS, planned with no date announced. Named on Moonlight Beach in 2023.
• KŌAN Scoobert Doobert · 2022 · 25 annotated A 2022 four-part alt-pop koan: three EP chapters and an LP-only fourth movement, with Zen paradox, Japanese songwriting, spatial sound, and post-pandemic happiness as pieces of one unresolved question.
• Big Hug Scoobert Doobert · 2021 · 16 annotated A 2021 post-pandemic alt-pop LP, sixth in the Scoobert run: Don't Worry at #1 on egoFM's ego 42 chart, Album der Woche on egoFM, and a San Diego Music Awards nomination.
• 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 A live concert filmed during the pandemic and placed inside virtual worlds built in Unity, directed by Max Horwich, with J MESA, Malik LovesYall, and Bravo Buggs; released as eight live recordings (2021).
• 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 Scoobert record: a 2020 DBZ hip-hopera with Babidi, Gokudaxij, and Nick Belcher.
• Masks and Monsters Scoobert Doobert · 2020 · 18 annotated The 2020 pandemic record: eighteen tracks written, played, mixed, and mastered in North Park, San Diego, during lockdown, with Babidi and Gokudaxij on three of them.
• 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 · 20 annotated The 2018 second LP 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 2017 debut LP: every song written, recorded, mixed, and mastered in a single flu-haunted day; Velma, a Scoobert Snack, and meddling kids 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.
• Little Little Homes FEiN · 2016 · 4 annotated March 2016 FEiN EP, still on Spotify. Four songs: Sculptor, Girl You Can't Hide It (Album Version), Outro, and #Grownupz (Album Version). Teaser for the Little Homes LP.
• FEiN Times (Issue #2) FEiN · 2015 · 3 annotated 2015 FEiN release, three songs: Girl You Can't Hide It, Creatures, and Lonely People. Spotify files it as a single. Crumpled FEiN Times newspaper cover.
• FEiN Times (Issue #1) FEiN · 2014 · 2 annotated August 2014 FEiN EP. Two songs: #Grownupz and Monay Grabba. Still on Spotify. House-shaped FEiN Times newspaper cover.
• 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.
• Live on Isle of Wight Radio Exist Elsewhere · 2012 · 3 annotated Exist Elsewhere live for Isle of Wight Radio: The Great Beyond, Digital Life, and Wavelengths. Aaron Dowler on bass. The masters are free on this page.
• 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 · 2007 · 6 annotated Early archive: solo EP from Luke Walton’s teenage songwriter period, recorded in 2006 and released in 2007 (~17:40, six tracks).