--- title: "MÖB" description: "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." year: 2023 releaseDate: 2023-10-20 artworkBy: "Gentle Giant Illustrations" artist: "Scoobert Doobert" artistId: "#scoobert" bandcamp: "https://scoobertdoobert.bandcamp.com/album/m-b-lp" spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/7kAZdCuQ89YJHbJQI0xeOB" apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/m%C3%B6b/1708670332" tracks: - { title: "Stories", song: stories } - { title: "MEMORY LAN", song: memory-lan } - { title: "Sunlight", song: sunlight } - { title: "Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)", song: dmv } - { title: "Aliens", song: aliens } - { title: "TOO HOT", song: too-hot } - { title: "Underwater", song: underwater } - { title: "fuck it let's go bowling", song: fuck-it-lets-go-bowling } - { title: "Gemini", song: gemini } - { title: "Getting Easier", song: getting-easier } - { title: "All I Need", song: all-i-need } press: - outlet: "Rock Da Fuq Out" url: "https://www.rockdafuqout.com/post/scoobert-doobert-new-album-being-diy-and-thoughts-on-the-san-diego-scene-interview" date: "2023-10-20" desc: "On MÖB as second 2023 LP, the Moonlight Beach Möbius tag, the four-part cycle, and Guillain-Barré as body-story context." - outlet: "Ear to the Ground Music" url: "https://www.eartothegroundmusic.co/2023/10/20/album-review-digging-into-the-soulful-stylings-of-scoobert-dooberts-new-mob/" date: "2023-10-20" desc: "Album review: Stories, MEMORY LAN, Sunlight, Underwater; heavy emotion balanced with silly buoyant observation." draft: false --- *MÖB* is the first turn of the Möbius cycle. After [*Moonlight Beach*](/albums/moonlight-beach/) made Scoobert geographically and socially real, *MÖB* turns inward again: but not in the old bedroom-chaos way. This is where the catalog starts thinking in multi-album architecture: **MÖB → I → US → MÖBIUS**. [*MÖB*](/albums/mob/) and [*I*](/albums/i/) are finished LPs; [*US*](/albums/us/) is in progress (chapter EPs on streaming); *MÖBIUS* is planned. [Public bio copy](https://scoobertdoobert.pizza/) names the intended four-part shape, and [Rock Da Fuq Out](https://www.rockdafuqout.com/post/scoobert-doobert-new-album-being-diy-and-thoughts-on-the-san-diego-scene-interview) connects *MÖB* back to the final Möbius tag on *Moonlight Beach*, calling it a fulfillment of that prophecy. [*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** is the first Möbius turn: body, memory, anxiety, survival, and loop-form. [Bandcamp *MÖB (LP)*](https://scoobertdoobert.bandcamp.com/album/m-b-lp) dropped **October 20, 2023** ($10 or more, 24-bit/88.2kHz). Eleven tracks, about twenty-eight minutes, on [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/7kAZdCuQ89YJHbJQI0xeOB) and [Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/m%C3%B6b/1708670332) (listed as *Möb*), ℗ 2023 Beformer. Album art by Gentle Giant Illustrations; mastering by Riley Knapp. Written, performed, produced, mixed, and the rest by Scoobert Doobert. *MÖB* is not merely another album after *Moonlight Beach*; it is a structural hinge. Rock Da Fuq Out describes it as Scoobert’s second LP of 2023 and says it moves away from conventional single-album cycles into interlinked multi-album narrative. The same feature frames *I*, *US*, and *MÖBIUS* as the planned follow-ons, with *MÖB* as the beginning of a larger self-discovery and acceptance story. The emotional center is sharper than *Moonlight Beach*. *Stories* opens with anxiety, internet history, Alexa/Siri/big-data helplessness, catastrophizing, climate and political dread, and the line-level idea that the “end of the world” is happening inside the head. *MEMORY LAN* turns nostalgia into a LAN-party / 90s-kid memory machine. *Sunlight* tries to answer that heaviness by choosing literal and metaphorical sunlight. Then the record keeps cycling between comic social observation, dread, bodily instability, escape, mania, and gratitude. [Ear to the Ground Music](https://www.eartothegroundmusic.co/2023/10/20/album-review-digging-into-the-soulful-stylings-of-scoobert-dooberts-new-mob/) called *Stories* a song about the stories people tell themselves, read *MEMORY LAN* as nostalgic and groove-centered, singled out *Sunlight* for its bouncy funk energy, and described *Underwater* as emotionally heavy and unusually chart-capable if given the chance. The review’s macro point: the album balances heavy emotional material with silly, buoyant observations about human life. There is also a biographical intensification. Rock Da Fuq Out frames *MÖB* around Scoobert’s battle with [Guillain-Barré syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillain%E2%80%93Barr%C3%A9_syndrome) and treats the album as a turning point from musician into storyteller, with the record carrying both joy and anguish around nearly losing the ability to make music. That gives the album a different weight than the earlier anxiety records: the instability is not only psychological or pandemic-era atmosphere; it is body-story, survival-story, musician-story. The title is not decorative. It is the first fragment of the planned final album *MÖBIUS*, and the record is full of repeated cycles: nostalgia loops, anxiety loops, internet loops, climate-dread loops, illness and recovery loops, wanting and not-wanting loops, American desire loops, and the effort to find enough sunlight inside all of it. *Big Hug* was the attention hinge. *Moonlight Beach* was the geography and touring hinge. *MÖB* is the architecture hinge: the next thing is not one album. It is a loop. What comes next is [*I*](/albums/i/): movement, love, and “u.” Then [*US*](/albums/us/), in progress. *MÖBIUS* remains ahead.