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Big Hug
Metadata
- title
- Big Hug
- description
- 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.
- year
- 2021
- releaseDate
- 2021-10-08
- artist
- Scoobert Doobert
- artistId
- #scoobert
- bandcamp
- https://scoobertdoobert.bandcamp.com/album/big-hug-lp
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/album/3dW4LbP8381fYkKBdBxiFn
- apple
- https://music.apple.com/us/album/big-hug/1585121212
- youtube
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdo4a4jv2nY
- youtubeLabel
- Visualizer
- tracks
- title
- I Live in California
- song
- i-live-in-california
- title
- Don't Worry
- song
- dont-worry
- title
- Can't Imagine Feeling Better
- song
- cant-imagine-feeling-better
- title
- I Love Money
- song
- i-love-money
- title
- Kick It in Nirvana
- feat
- Malik LovesYall
- song
- kick-it-in-nirvana
- title
- I'm an Idiot
- song
- im-an-idiot
- title
- Heffalumps and Woozles
- song
- heffalumps-and-woozles
- title
- Slow Jam.wav (Stolen Off of Napster)
- song
- slow-jam-wav-stolen-off-of-napster
- title
- If I Could Only
- song
- if-i-could-only
- title
- Scared to Reunite
- song
- scared-to-reunite
- title
- Where Did Our Love Go
- cover
- true
- coverOf
- The Supremes
- song
- where-did-our-love-go
- title
- Debby (Extended)
- song
- debby
- title
- I See the Monument
- feat
- J MESA
- song
- i-see-the-moment
- title
- All in the Feeling
- feat
- Malik LovesYall
- song
- all-in-the-feeling
- title
- Hold Up
- feat
- J MESA
- song
- hold-up
- title
- Big Hug
- song
- a-big-hug
- press
- outlet
- egoFM ego 42: Don't Worry at #1
- url
- https://www.instagram.com/p/CO52mijKaI2/
- date
- 2021-05-15
- desc
- Don't Worry hit #1 on egoFM's ego 42 weekly chart (↑ from #7); first #1 on a public weekly radio chart for Scoobert Doobert.
- outlet
- 91X FM: Top 91 of 2021
- url
- https://www.91x.com/top-91/top-91-2021/
- date
- 2021
- desc
- Don't Worry ranked #90 on 91X's year-end Top 91 Songs of 2021.
- outlet
- 91X FM: Loudspeaker Top 5 (April 2021)
- url
- https://www.91x.com/loudspeaker/91x-loudspeaker-top-5-for-april-2021/
- date
- 2021-04
- desc
- Tim Pyles Loudspeaker Top 5: Don't Worry at #1 for April 2021.
- outlet
- 91X FM: studio visit
- url
- https://www.instagram.com/p/CUnGAK-ltD9/
- date
- 2021-10-04
- desc
- In the 91X studio with Tim Pyles (@thelocalpyle), days before Big Hug LP release.
- outlet
- egoFM: Album der Woche (Big Hug)
- url
- https://www.egofm.de/musik/news/scoobert-doobert-big-hug
- date
- 2021-10-08
- desc
- Munich radio Album der Woche release-week feature on the LP: solo multi-instrumentalist story, Little Hug then Big Hug, and tracks from Don't Worry to Heffalumps and Woozles.
- outlet
- Future Hits Radio: Gingerbread House (2021) Edition (Instagram)
- url
- https://www.instagram.com/p/ClT63xcj1w4/
- date
- 2022-11-23
- desc
- Lizzie Romain Positive New Music Releases · 7pm · Scoobert among thirteen UK emerging artists.
- outlet
- San Diego Reader
- url
- https://www.sandiegoreader.com/albums/big-hug/
- desc
- Follow-up to Little Hug; on giving listeners a big hug after fear, awkwardness, and reemergence.
- outlet
- Mundane Magazine
- url
- https://mundanemag.com/scoobert-doobert-releases-full-length-big-hug-on-beformer-records/
- desc
- Release feature on Beformer; mixing, approachability, and meeting “this moment” as people left isolation.
- outlet
- UNXIGNED
- url
- https://www.unxigned.com/reviews/track-reviews/scoobert-doobert-im-an-idiot/
- date
- 2021-09
- desc
- On “I’m an Idiot” ahead of the LP: self-deprecation as freedom, not just confession.
- outlet
- Glasse Factory
- url
- https://glassefactory.com/scoobert-dooberts-new-track-think-about-it-is-experimental-funk-at-its-finest/
- desc
- Artist note: sixth record, trying to give listeners a big hug; later SDMA nomination for Best R&B, Funk or Soul Album.
- outlet
- egoFM: Privataudienz (hosted guest hour)
- url
- https://www.egofm.de/radiowelt/die-egofm-privataudienz
- desc
- Scoobert Doobert hosted and curated ~25 min guest hour on Munich radio; Slow Jam.wav in published tracklist.
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- false
Content
Big Hug is the sixth Scoobert record, after Little Hug.
Finding $D is the lab notebook. Swami's is the collage LP. Dragon Ball $d is the narrative hip-hopera. Masks and Monsters is the pandemic record. Little Hug is the small recovery object. Big Hug is the post-pandemic LP: anxious little apes, but the groove still works, the jokes still help, and life is better when somebody gives you a big hug.
Bandcamp Big Hug (LP) dropped October 8, 2021 ($8 or more, 24-bit/88.2kHz). Sixteen songs, about forty-four minutes, on Spotify, Apple Music, and a YouTube visualizer, ℗ 2021 Beformer. The earlier records mostly have visual albums (long music videos); Big Hug has a visualizer instead. Luke Francis Walton wrote, arranged, recorded, mixed, and produced most of it holistically; J MESA (Babidi / Taylor James) co-wrote I See the Moment (Bandcamp: I See the Monument) and Hold Up; Malik LovesYall co-wrote All in the Feeling and appears on Kick It in Nirvana. Pro Tools almost like the main instrument. Most songs came together in a few intense days, same fast-DIY lineage as Finding $D, but with a much better toolkit. Mundane Magazine quotes him on the shift: the mixing no longer "sucks," the music more approachable, bass central.
San Diego Reader and Mundane both describe it as the follow-up to Little Hug, aimed at people emerging from caves full of fear and social awkwardness. Can't Imagine Feeling Better, If I Could Only, and Debby (Extended) (same song as the EP: adds a guitar solo) carry material forward from the EP. Track 13 is I See the Monument on Bandcamp; some distributor metadata (DistroKid, MusicBrainz) lists the same song as “I See the Moment.” This site follows Bandcamp. I'm an Idiot, Don't Worry, Scared to Reunite, Where Did Our Love Go, All in the Feeling, and the title track all point at the same post-pandemic problem: how to be a person again without pretending you aren't scared, dumb, lonely, self-conscious, or weird. Heffalumps, Napster jokes, California mythology: still cartoon shell.
I'm an Idiot landed on Spotify's New Music Friday around release; UNXIGNED caught the single in September 2021. Munich's egoFM named Big Hug Album der Woche for release week (October 8, 2021). Glasse Factory later notes a San Diego Music Awards nomination for Best R&B, Funk or Soul Album. What comes next is KŌAN: paradox, Japan, and spatial sound.