Finding $D

Finding $D is Scoobert Doobert’s first LP (say it “Finding SD,” as in San Diego): the origin-point record in the public catalog. Ten songs, about thirty-three minutes. Luke Francis Walton wrote every song, played every instrument, mixed it, and mastered it. Not a polished debut statement so much as the first visible lab notebook: a voice arriving before it has learned to hide its seams.

Bandcamp Finding $D (LP) dropped May 27, 2017 ($7 or more, 16-bit/44.1kHz). Tags there say bedroom pop, lo-fi, alt-rock, San Diego. Most streaming platforms now carry it as Finding $d (Remastered), listed March 9, 2018, ℗ 2020 Machina Sacramentum. Spotify still has both the original and remastered entries. Treat May 2017 as the original release and March 2018 as the remaster date unless distro-side docs say otherwise.

Glasse Factory quotes Scoobert describing it as a collection of songs written, recorded, and mixed in a day; Gud Gud Medicine was tracked while he had the flu. That frames the whole thing as a fast, slightly feral identity artifact. Last Day Deaf catches the artist posture around the same era: music with friends in high school, staying in San Diego to learn production after bandmates left for college, sound that moves between raw chaos and pop hooks, “shitty playing” and precise moments, funk and Beatles in the bloodstream. 91X tells the Encinitas prehistory.

The cartoon shell is deliberate: Velma, Scoobert Snack, meddling kids, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters. Stereofox picked up “My Scoobert Snack” in July 2017 when the first two singles were both Scooby-Doo themed. What a Velma What a Night also got traction on Reddit’s r/listentothis as pop/funk. The joke names aren’t just novelty. They give the project permission to be sincere, weird, and rough without getting precious. Underneath: DIY bedroom-pop/funk/alt-pop experimentation.

What comes next is Swami’s: the lore dump.