Pipe-eye, AKA: singer/songwriter Cook Craig, has released his new LP, Pipe-defy., the album is out today on King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard‘s imprint p(doom) records and DSPs.

Influences by funk and 70s/80s synth dance classics, Pipe-defy is a stylistic departure from Cook Craig’s 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.”

Pipe-eye
Pipe-defy
TRACKLISTING:

Catch Me On A Break
Snake On A Sand Dune
Lords Of Lithium
I’m Coming Back
Travertine
Best Party Ever II
The Taste
Fortune Cookie
We’re In This Together
Innuendo
Don’t Fade Away

Order Pipe-defy by Pipe-Eye HERE