--- title: "I" description: "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." year: 2024 releaseDate: 2024-06-14 artworkBy: "Grizzard Graphics" artist: "Scoobert Doobert" artistId: "#scoobert" bandcamp: "https://scoobertdoobert.bandcamp.com/album/i" spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/2O9X06yNiwLSJbL8MLGC49" apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/i/1734387671" tracks: - { title: "daydreaming", song: daydreaming } - { title: "time with u", song: time-with-u } - { title: "the cycle", song: the-cycle } - { title: "ez pz", song: ez-pz } - { title: "singing for u", song: singing-for-u } - { title: "watercolor sky", song: watercolor-sky } - { title: "don't drive sleepy", song: dont-drive-sleepy } - { title: "omw", song: omw } - { title: "that's how u know i love u", song: thats-how-u-know-i-love-u } - { title: "only the beginning", song: only-the-beginning } - { title: "see you again?", song: see-you-again } - { title: "it gets better", song: it-gets-better } - { title: "golden state of mind", song: golden-state-of-mind } discogs: "https://www.discogs.com/release/32389527-Scoobert-Doobert-I" vinyl: "https://newcosmosrecords.bigcartel.com/product/scoobert-doobert-i-vinyl" press: - outlet: "New Cosmos Records: I (vinyl)" url: "https://newcosmosrecords.bigcartel.com/product/scoobert-doobert-i-vinyl" desc: "/300 “daydreaming” multicolor splatter · /25 “golden state of mind” NCR handmade (sand + beer labels) · extensive liner notes." - outlet: "Discogs: I (vinyl)" url: "https://www.discogs.com/release/32389527-Scoobert-Doobert-I" desc: "Multicolor splatter vinyl · written by Luke Francis Walton · material public record." - outlet: "EARMILK" url: "https://earmilk.com/2024/06/25/scoobert-doobert-is-omw-to-his-love/" date: "2024-06" desc: "On “omw” as I lead single: anticipation, Trader Joe’s frozen dinner, warm pads, plus the AI dog-to-cat visual." - outlet: "Nagamag" url: "https://www.nagamag.com/the-latest/scoobert-doobert-time-with-u-pop-music-review" date: "2024-02" desc: "On “time with u”: catchy, harmonic, joyful bedroom/lo-fi pop in the dream-pop zone." - outlet: "Love Music More" url: "https://lovemusicmore.substack.com/p/first-blog" date: "2024-06" desc: "On I as the second released part of the planned four-album MÖBIUS series; super-album as a reaction to single supremacy." draft: false --- *I* is the self-record, but not in a lonely way. Scoobert’s own Bandcamp note states the thesis plainly: the album is called “I,” but the lyrics keep using “u” — “u are why I’m me.” After [*MÖB*](/albums/mob/) opened the loop with body, memory, illness, anxiety, and self-story, *I* turns toward the self as something formed through movement, love, place, family, friends, nature, and return. [*Finding $D*](/albums/finding-d-remastered/) is the lab notebook. [*Swami's*](/albums/wami/) is the lore dump. [*Dragon Ball $d*](/albums/dragon-ball-d/) is the narrative hip-hopera. [*Masks and Monsters*](/albums/masks-and-monsters/) is the pandemic record. [*Little Hug*](/albums/little-hug/) is the small recovery object. [*Big Hug*](/albums/big-hug/) is the accessible thesis. [*KŌAN*](/albums/koan/) is the four-part paradox / international expansion. [*Moonlight Beach*](/albums/moonlight-beach/) is the place-record, radio record, and live-body record. [*MÖB*](/albums/mob/) is the first Möbius turn: body, memory, anxiety, survival, loop-form. **I** is the second: relational selfhood, movement, love, nature, craft, and “u.” [*US*](/albums/us/) is the third turn, in progress. *MÖBIUS* is the planned completing turn. [Bandcamp *I*](https://scoobertdoobert.bandcamp.com/album/i) dropped **June 14, 2024** ($9.99 or more, 24-bit/44.1kHz). Thirteen tracks, about thirty-seven minutes, on [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/2O9X06yNiwLSJbL8MLGC49) and [Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/i/1734387671), ℗ 2024 Beformer. Illustration and design by Grizzard Graphics; mastering by Riley Knapp. All songs written by Luke Francis Walton (BMI). This is also the first clearly vinyl-forward Scoobert record in the public trail. Bandcamp lists a full multicolor 12-inch vinyl limited run with extensive liner notes, and [New Cosmos Records](https://newcosmosrecords.bigcartel.com/product/scoobert-doobert-i-vinyl) lists two variants: /300 “daydreaming” multicolor splatter copies and /25 “golden state of mind” NCR handmade beach-pattern copies using sand and beer labels Scoobert chose to represent the album’s inspiration (the handmade run may sell out on the store page). The production note is unusually important. Scoobert intended the album as a soundtrack for travel, coastal trains, cars, robot cars, and programmed grooves on California trains, Shinkansen rides in Japan, and airplanes, so movement is baked into the music rather than only described by it. He wrote the record over about eight months, beginning in the Grand Tetons, then moving through the Sierra Nevada and Mount Whitney, with lyrics captured as voice notes on long hikes. Recorded at Micasa Studios (San Diego), his home studio; the name is *mi casa* in Spanish and a nod to Mikasa from *Attack on Titan*: and on the Tōkaidō, San'yō, and Tōhoku Shinkansen, the Pacific Surfliner, a Boeing 787 over the Pacific, and several other stops listed in the [full liner notes](https://scoobertdoobert.bandcamp.com/album/i). That gives *I* a different center from *MÖB*. *MÖB* is looped, anxious, historical, memory-sick. *I* still carries doubt and loss, but the answer is motion: train, car, hike, island, coast, sky, water, Japan, home. It is not “I” as ego. It is “I” as a moving coordinate. The studio step is also major. Scoobert says he finally got out of the bedroom for the first time since 2018, recording at Micasa, playing drums again, and building a more coherent LP palette around consistent room sound, reverbs, reversed sounds, and a “lofi meets hifi” third-room idea, virtual Sound City and Hitsville reverb blended with a real treated room. The old bedroom-pop DNA remains, but the self-production is now more deliberate and album-minded. Collaborators sharpen the “everything sings” idea. [**Lou Roy**](/with/lou-roy/) on background vocals (tracks 3, 4, 6, 10, 11, 13); Nicole McCabe on bass clarinet (4, 10, 12, 13); Bubby Lewis on bass (5, 12, 13). Scoobert handles recording, mixing, arranging, production, vocals, instruments, and field recording. Roy also features on the standalone [**angeleyes**](/songs/angeleyes/) cover (2022). The attention trail is quieter than *Moonlight Beach*’s Paris/Munich radio moment, but not invisible. [Nagamag](https://www.nagamag.com/the-latest/scoobert-doobert-time-with-u-pop-music-review) on *time with u* called it catchy, harmonic, and joyful: bedroom/lo-fi pop, indie pop, dream pop. That fits the album’s public face: less “look how weird this mythology is,” more sweet, melodic, coastal, and easy to enter. The meta-album context matters. On [Love Music More](https://lovemusicmore.substack.com/p/first-blog), Scoobert says *I* is the second released part of the planned four-album [MÖBIUS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip) series after *MÖB*, with [*US*](/albums/us/) (third turn, now in progress as chapter EPs) and *MÖBIUS* (completing turn) still to come. He frames the whole intended arc as a “super-album” or “meta-album,” partly as a reaction against single supremacy in streaming culture. *Big Hug* was the attention hinge. *Moonlight Beach* was the geography and touring hinge. *MÖB* was the architecture hinge. *I* is the craft-and-self hinge: the Scoobert universe becoming clearer, warmer, and more classically album-shaped without losing the weird little engine that made it Scoobert. The “I” here is not isolated individualism. It is the self after the loop has learned what sustains it. What comes next is [*US*](/albums/us/), in progress.