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title: "Little Hug"

description: "A 2021 visual EP, often misfiled as an album: the small recovery object after Masks and Monsters, with real crickets in the room."

year: 2021
releaseDate: 2021-04-30
releaseType: EP

artist: "Scoobert Doobert"
artistId: "#scoobert"

bandcamp: "https://scoobertdoobert.bandcamp.com/album/little-hug"
spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/08qm91rIDQEj86DoQWiNyB"
apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/little-hug/1558296985"
youtube: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo6DdbU_c_I"
youtubeLabel: "Visual EP"

tracks:
  - { title: "Walking Balboa", instrumental: true, song: walking-balboa }
  - { title: "If I Could Only", song: if-i-could-only }
  - { title: "My Home Was Invaded by Crickets", instrumental: true, song: my-home-was-invaded-by-crickets }
  - { title: "Premadonna", song: premadonna }
  - { title: "No Fap", song: no-fap }
  - { title: "Take a Breath", song: take-a-breath }
  - { title: "I'm Addicted to Baths", song: im-addicted-to-baths }
  - { title: "Can't Imagine Feeling Better", song: cant-imagine-feeling-better }
  - { title: "I Am a Lobster, I Am a Barnacle", song: i-am-a-lobster-i-am-a-barnacle }
  - { title: "Don't Know Much", song: dont-know-much }
  - { title: "Debby", song: debby }
  - { title: "A Little Hug", song: a-little-hug }

press:
  - outlet: "The Wavys — EP of the Year nominee"
    url: "https://www.instagram.com/p/CUNCY0srSAg/"
    date: "2021-09-24"
    desc: "wavyawards2021 — Little Hug nominated for EP of the Year; @wavyawards Instagram carousel with @mr.scoobert_doobert among nominees."
  - outlet: "Glasse Factory"
    url: "https://glassefactory.com/scoobert-dooberts-new-track-think-about-it-is-experimental-funk-at-its-finest/"
    desc: "Artist note: fifth record, about the process of coming back into the world."
  - outlet: "Where the Music Meets"
    url: "https://www.wherethemusicmeets.com/2020/11/06/scoobert-doobert-take-a-breath/"
    date: "2020-11"
    desc: "On “Take a Breath” ahead of the EP."
  - outlet: "Mundane Magazine"
    url: "https://mundanemag.com/scoobert-doobert-releases-full-length-big-hug-on-beformer-records/"
    desc: "On Big Hug as the follow-up to the previous year’s Little Hug EP."

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*Little Hug* is canonically an EP. [Bandcamp titles it *Little Hug (EP)*](https://scoobertdoobert.bandcamp.com/album/little-hug), released **April 30, 2021**, twelve tracks, about **22:40** by the listed runtimes. Bandcamp's product type still says "digital album." [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/08qm91rIDQEj86DoQWiNyB) and [Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/little-hug/1558296985) bucket it as an album because it has twelve tracks. Culturally it's an EP; platform-wise it gets album-sorted. That's the metadata trap.

Fifth in the Scoobert run, after [*Masks and Monsters*](/albums/masks-and-monsters/). [*Finding $D*](/albums/finding-d-remastered/) is the lab notebook. [*Swami's*](/albums/wami/) is the lore dump. [*Dragon Ball $d*](/albums/dragon-ball-d/) is the narrative hip-hopera. **Masks and Monsters** is the pandemic record. **Little Hug** is the small recovery object: the inhale after the portrait, not the big statement yet. [Glasse Factory](https://glassefactory.com/scoobert-dooberts-new-track-think-about-it-is-experimental-funk-at-its-finest/) quotes Scoobert on **coming back into the world**. The "little" matters. Balboa, baths, breath, home, body, wanting connection, not quite okay but reaching for warmth anyway. Titles still funny, but less worldbuilding-heavy than *$WAMI$* or *Dragon Ball $d*. The joke register is more intimate.

**Opener:** *Walking Balboa*: **instrumental** (no song-meaning page). San Diego beach walk as EP threshold before the lyrical run.

**Track three:** *My Home Was Invaded by Crickets*: **instrumental** (no song-meaning page). The title is not a joke: the crickets were real, everywhere, and couldn't be found. Bandcamp says it plainly: if you hear crickets on this EP, they were not added in post. Domestic field recording as much as music.

Ten lyric tracks on the EP have annotation pages; *Walking Balboa* and *My Home Was Invaded by Crickets* are tagged **instrumental** on the tracklist.

Luke Francis Walton wrote and produced it. ℗ 2021 Beformer. Title track [*A Little Hug*](/songs/a-little-hug/), core vocal and ukulele **recorded in the water at June Lake** (Sierra Nevada). The [visual EP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo6DdbU_c_I) runs the same twelve chapters in the same order: also on [/music/#selected-videos](/music/#selected-videos). [Where the Music Meets](https://www.wherethemusicmeets.com/2020/11/06/scoobert-doobert-take-a-breath/) picked up *Take a Breath* in late 2020 before the full release landed.

It also bridges into [*Big Hug*](/albums/big-hug/): the full therapeutic statement. Coverage treats *Big Hug* as the follow-up; it absorbs and reworks *Can't Imagine Feeling Better*, *If I Could Only*, and [*Debby*](/songs/debby/) (Extended on the LP: same song, guitar solo). Important hinge, not a minor leftover: pandemic mythos on one side, the accessible thesis on the other.