PIPE-EYE
Pipe-Defy (Orange Vinyl LP)
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For the first time since 2021, Pipe-eye, the moniker for Australian musician, singer and songwriter Cook Craig (King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, The Murlocs), releases a brand new LP titled Pipe-defy.
With nods to the venerable influences of funk and 70s/80s synth dance classics, Pipe-defy is a stylistic departure from his previous albums. For this project, Craig explains wearing his influences on his sleeve; “At around the time that I was starting to write songs for the album, my mum gave me a bunch of old CDs from my early teens that I hadn’t listened to in ages. There was heaps of Grandmaster Flash, Herbie Hancock, Zapp, Stevie Wonder and other stuff like that. When I kept writing songs they kinda just started sounding like that… so I guess it kinda just kick started an old obsession I had for that style of music.” This is particularly evident as each track beckons listeners to lose themselves in a tapestry of mesmeric synth rhythms, sobering orchestra hits and foot tapping, knee slapping, hand clapping groove.
Pipe-defy stands as a testament to Craig’s resolve to explore new aesthetics with each new release, furthering his quest to push himself to into new song-writing terrain. "When I was writing the songs for the album, (which I had about 20 of), if I wasn’t bopping my head subconsciously to it, then it was cut."
Tracklist:
1. Catch Me On A Break
2. Snake On A Sand Dune
3. Lords Of Lithium
4. I’m Coming Back
5. Travertine
6. Best Party Ever II
7. The Taste
8. Fortune Cookie
9. We’re In This Together
10. Inneundo
11. Don’t Fade Away