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I Am a Slave to the Yeast
Metadata
- title
- I Am a Slave to the Yeast
- meaning
- Lockdown sourdough brain: agoraphobia, Stockholm love of home, fishes and beach people free but not me: lately leavened bread is all I eat, slave to the yeast.
- year
- 2020
- release
- Masks and Monsters
- releaseType
- album
- artist
- Scoobert Doobert
- artistId
- #scoobert
- credits
- Written, performed, mixed, and mastered by Luke Francis Walton. Album art by Gentle Giant Illustrations.
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/album/13zzM1QEnrvJ7kRwUGNIFw
- apple
- https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-am-a-slave-to-the-yeast/1526427944?i=1526428037
- themes
- pandemic
- lockdown
- sourdough
- Masks and Monsters
- agoraphobia
- domestic
- isrc
- QZK6P2060460
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
Lyrics
The agoraphobia Is setting in Don't wanna go back on the outside That Stockholm Syndrome And now I only love my Home I only wanna make more sourdough loaves And then all of the fishes in the sea They wanna be free But not me Singing All of the people on the beach So careless and free But not me I am a slave to the yeast Homebrewing is taking over me Lately lately Say Lately leavened bread is all I eat A slave to the yeast
Content
Track fifteen on Masks and Monsters. Luke solo, North Park lockdown, August 2020. The LP's sourdough song: the 2020 quarantine hobby as religious submission, the same domestic-comedy lane as Creature Comfort (wash another pan) and Pandemic Blues (moldy bread sandwich).
Inside wins. Fear of leaving curdles into preference, then full Stockholm syndrome (the agoraphobia is setting in, now I only love my home), with the starter culture standing in for a personality. The bridge envies the world through the window (all of the people on the beach / so careless and free / but not me), an inverted Under the Sea where you don't actually want out. The chorus collapses the whole diet to levain: I am a slave to the yeast / homebrewing is taking over me, beer and bread both, fermentation as obsession.
Back-half MMM after Corona's romantic terror, before Why, How, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah and Mystery Machine. Same can't-leave-the-house thread as Snuggle With Shaggy (desert island by choice) and Flip Flop Phil (open mic elsewhere you can't reach).