$WAMI$

$WAMI$ (say it “Swami’s,” like the beer and the beach) is the second Scoobert Doobert LP after Finding $D, before Dragon Ball $d. It landed on Bandcamp as $WAMI$ (LP) on May 9, 2018: a free digital album, twenty tracks, about thirty-three minutes. Luke Francis Walton wrote, played, tracked, mixed, mastered, and cut the visual album himself. Babidi and Gokudaxij show up on featured vocals; Louis Cole sits in on the drum-and-bass moments (Vegeta Is Bulma’s Bad Boi, Shaggy Connections). The kit is real; the loops are borrowed from Nate Smith, Efa Etoroma Jr, and Bernard Purdie and then deliberately messed with.

The title has an Encinitas root. A Purple Melon interview has Scoobert tying a single back to Swami’s Beach: one of the main Encinitas breaks, named after Paramahansa Yogananda, with a song born after wandering the Self-Realization Gardens and feeling creeped out by religion. 91X repeats the local myth: Swami’s, the Surfing Madonna, the Cardiff Kook, bandmates gone for college, learning drums and bass and production by jamming with himself. That local surf-spiritual weirdness is the seed; weed humor, cartoon escape, and internet brain are what grew.

Finding $D is the rough first lab notebook. $WAMI$ is the lore dump: less a conventional album than a collage packet of interludes, joke titles, recurring characters, stoner theology, anime cosmology, and short sincere pop/funk gestures. Scoobert Snack, Pt. 2, What a Velma, What a Night (Quickie), and Mother of Exile make it feel like a remix of the debut world, not a clean second chapter. Glasse Factory quotes Scoobert calling it nostalgic wave, all tracked in a bathrobe. Tags on Bandcamp say bedroom pop, lo-fi, alt-rock, San Diego. That tracks.

Public metadata is messy on purpose or despite it. Bandcamp: 20 tracks (~32:52). Spotify: 18 songs, 35:33, shorter titles, remixes folded in. YouTube visual album: an extended collage cut with extra interludes (like 12 Unethical Cleaning Hacks You Won’t Learn In School) that never made the Bandcamp LP. The tracklist here follows Bandcamp; if a title looks wrong on Spotify or YouTube, that’s why.

The closer teases the next record: Next Time on Dragon Ball SD.