Themes
Not an index, more like a way to wander. Same song can appear in more than one cluster; a few things recur. Full alphabetical list at Songs.
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The Beach
Moonlight Beach, Balboa boardwalk, San Diego coast, songs that take place where the sand starts.
- Alright A Moonlight Beach day-check: burritos, sand, UV, and the call-and-response question, are you feeling alright?: answered until it becomes true.
- Feels So Good Moonlight Beach joy overload: pizza cheese-pull commercial, bonfire at your break, California burrito economics, Neptune infinity pool: platonic homie love so good it feels fake.
- Boardwalk KŌAN A beach song: negative balance but Luffy straw-hat energy: on the boardwalk nothing to do while your friend counts millions and good depression meds; why did no one else come to the beach?
- a song to quit your job to KŌAN anti-work fantasy: delete Outlook, silence the Pavlov phone, sit your ass on the beach on a Monday: not gonna work another day here, watching money disappear and feeling free.
- Wavy Post-Big Hug summer single feat. Celeste Krishna: IPA, heated jacuzzi, local summer: wavy on the beach, sweet spot when you tryna catch a wave.
- watercolor sky Look up from the river: pink-purple watercolor sky, garden breeze, mosquitos and all: spend more time outside, never worry.
- Walking Balboa Opener on [*Little Hug*](/albums/little-hug/): instrumental.
- merry christmas (from the beach) Encinitas Christmas: white caps as snow, sand angels and palm-tree lights: Kyle's Carlsbad campsite, bonfire ring, alright to do it differently.
Quit Your Job
Anti-work anthems, escape fantasies, and the radical act of doing nothing on a Tuesday.
- a song to quit your job to KŌAN anti-work fantasy: delete Outlook, silence the Pavlov phone, sit your ass on the beach on a Monday: not gonna work another day here, watching money disappear and feeling free.
- best. day. ever. A stoner-bro manifesto for breaking your friend out of the cubicle and having the kind of weird, sunny day that doesn't need a plan.
- JAZZ FLUTE US chapter two as private island: nothing to do, vinyl jazz flute, candlelit dim dinner: breathe, stick together, slow down, let it go.
- Boardwalk KŌAN A beach song: negative balance but Luffy straw-hat energy: on the boardwalk nothing to do while your friend counts millions and good depression meds; why did no one else come to the beach?
- Let's Move to the Top of a Mountain KŌAN A escape fantasy: me and you on the mountain: bear protection pact, ditch TV for the view, sick of oxygen, flower-named kids, roof naps and herbal tea.
- No Worries, Yes Worries KŌAN C title-track flip: Genie with Monkey's Paw, no worries yes worries no meaning: live forever? frozen-over hell; same boss/office dread as quit-your-job.
- daydreaming I opens in the classroom window: coastal escape as daydream you can share: Pacific train, Santa Ana air, San Diego sand, come over.
Platonic Love
Songs for the homies, the group chat, the dorm-room friends, and the ones you carry when they're gone.
- All My Friends Live on the Internet Platonic love for the group chat: best friends you might never meet IRL, and a wifi router you have to slap to keep them in frame.
- Feels So Good Moonlight Beach joy overload: pizza cheese-pull commercial, bonfire at your break, California burrito economics, Neptune infinity pool: platonic homie love so good it feels fake.
- 4:20 pm KŌAN LP-only love song that refuses the genre: at 4:20 stop worrying, laugh off the lonely rock, guilt and all: you got my back, and singing feels like grasping for air you're already in.
- see you again? For friends lost along the way: savor what you had, carry the talisman, wonder if you'll see them again: maybe, probably, never know.
- best. day. ever. A stoner-bro manifesto for breaking your friend out of the cubicle and having the kind of weird, sunny day that doesn't need a plan.
- Alright A Moonlight Beach day-check: burritos, sand, UV, and the call-and-response question, are you feeling alright?: answered until it becomes true.
- Mystery Machine Nostalgic sickness: pre-pandemic beach runs and garage band local bars: can't afford to see friends, steal a van, Mystery Machine back to what you're missing.
Online
The internet as medium, metaphor, and mood, connection that's real even through a bad router.
- All My Friends Live on the Internet Platonic love for the group chat: best friends you might never meet IRL, and a wifi router you have to slap to keep them in frame.
- 5G BABY Co-write with Robel Ketema and Cary Singer: from AIM dial-up to always-on pocket love: consume ya, blueprint your footprint, 5G baby, never lonely on the long road again.
- Stories MÖB opens in the head: browsing history, invented slights, end-of-the-world loops: writing stories nobody said while smiling through a happy song.
- THIS IS FINE The meme as mantra: strip LOL down to this is fine / everything is fine: repeated until the dog-in-fire joke becomes the whole song.
Anxiety & Spirals
End-of-world loops, sleep paralysis, imposter syndrome, and trying to breathe through it.
- Stories MÖB opens in the head: browsing history, invented slights, end-of-the-world loops: writing stories nobody said while smiling through a happy song.
- Take a Breath Little Hug sleep-paralysis song: voodoo on the bed, demons on the chest: take another breath, it's all in your head, then Goku's nimbus over Cardiff-by-the-Sea.
- Who Am I Really Fooling Anyway Imposter syndrome as a pep talk: let go, lighten up, and admit the recurring dream where you're short two credits on the degree.
- Underwater When stability was a bluff: anxiety pulls people away, stationary-bike life, sliding into the ocean: meant to be underwater.
- THIS IS FINE The meme as mantra: strip LOL down to this is fine / everything is fine: repeated until the dog-in-fire joke becomes the whole song.
- Tired of the Sunshine California contradiction: blame Mercury retrograde, want alone-but-not-alone: tired of the sunshine on a beach record, feat. Bubby Lewis.
2020
Songs written inside the pandemic and the political exhaustion that surrounded it.
- Moving to Canada September 2020 escape fantasy: brighter days under a pine, Narnia north: people turning funny, land of milk and honey, Montreal je t'aime, am I happy to be hiding?
- A Good Life Pandemic love song: us alone isn't what you pictured: ignore the chaos, don't look around, keep singing it's a good life while grinning and bottling it up.
- 2020 Is Over December 2020 exhale: bad days still ahead, but the horizon brightens because the year is finally done: ape on a rock, no soma holiday, eating crow with egg and ham, turn up.
- When It's Over Pandemic love deferred: hold you with my toes, hoards on Fury Road outside the window: when it's over, zoo and park and 40 after dark, if my liver lives to see you; iron lung, Elon Musk, thanks be to the Ford.
- Wash Your Fucking Hands CDC hand-washing PSA as song: the refrain runs exactly twenty seconds: functional pandemic gag on Masks and Monsters.
- to everyone who had a good pandemic KŌAN LP closer: quiet without you, podcast as noise, Google life expectancy: boss says just a cold, why'd I laugh along; don't dance and sing about it.
Partner
Love songs for a specific someone, the north star on a lonely Pacific, the forever at the tarmac.
- it gets better Reassurance for someone cloudy: ray-of-sunshine pep talk, Pacific north-star love, garden-and-family warmth: it gets better, maybe tomorrow.
- chasing the sunset Post-I distance song: map the country to where your person is going, floor it west chasing the light, and name it forever love at the tarmac.
- 4:20 pm KŌAN LP-only love song that refuses the genre: at 4:20 stop worrying, laugh off the lonely rock, guilt and all: you got my back, and singing feels like grasping for air you're already in.
- Let's Move to the Top of a Mountain KŌAN A escape fantasy: me and you on the mountain: bear protection pact, ditch TV for the view, sick of oxygen, flower-named kids, roof naps and herbal tea.
- daydreaming I opens in the classroom window: coastal escape as daydream you can share: Pacific train, Santa Ana air, San Diego sand, come over.
- A Little Hug Little Hug closer, recorded in the water at June Lake: company for everybody, piece of God though I'm a piece of shit: little reminder what love can do.
Japan
Songs rooted in Japan: productions, collaborations, and the long Scoobert–Japanese music-world thread.
- see you again? For friends lost along the way: savor what you had, carry the talisman, wonder if you'll see them again: maybe, probably, never know.
- Gonna Go to Japan Pre-flight Japan fantasy on Moonlight Beach: Shinkansen ramen, capybara onsen, Mount Fuji: 日本に行きたい until けど今できない.
- WHOLE CHAI single (2022); Luke Francis Walton produced. Theme song for NHK Koisenu Futari; performed at CHAI's Mar 12, 2024 final show (Blu-ray track 11 まるごと).
- 夢のはなし (MY DREAM) CHAI single (2022); Luke Francis Walton sound-produced. Japanese title 夢のはなし, English title MY DREAM: same song, theme for the film さかなのこ (Sakana no Ko / The Fish Tale).
- Bumblebae Kajax / Sanguine Penguin × Scoobert Doobert: disco-funk collab single (Apr 2022).
Recovery & Hope
Songs about getting through it, not fixed, just breathing, and maybe tomorrow.
- it gets better Reassurance for someone cloudy: ray-of-sunshine pep talk, Pacific north-star love, garden-and-family warmth: it gets better, maybe tomorrow.
- Can't Imagine Feeling Better Peak Little Hug absurd joy: banana-peel skip, Obama OG, ride a llama with the Dalai Lama through seven seas: can't imagine feeling better than I do right now.
- Take a Breath Little Hug sleep-paralysis song: voodoo on the bed, demons on the chest: take another breath, it's all in your head, then Goku's nimbus over Cardiff-by-the-Sea.
- A Big Hug Big Hug closer, Luke solo: no one here gets out alive, and that's okay: flawed and beautiful, a big hug is all we need.
- A Little Hug Little Hug closer, recorded in the water at June Lake: company for everybody, piece of God though I'm a piece of shit: little reminder what love can do.
- Sunlight After Stories' head-noise: choose sunlight: popsicle picnic, Tajín mango, beer back, summer camp where nobody needs you.