Cook Craig
{{short description|Australian singer}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=April 2021}}
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| caption = Craig performing with King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard in 2023
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| birth_name = Nicholas Roderick Craig
| birth_place = Australia
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| genre = {{hlist|Psychedelic rock|garage rock|psychedelic pop}}
| occupation = {{hlist|Musician|singer|songwriter}}
| instrument = {{hlist|Guitar|vocals|bass guitar|keyboards}}
| years_active = 2008–present
| label = {{hlist |Flightless|p(doom)}}
| current_member_of = {{hlist|King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard|The Murlocs}}
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Nicholas Roderick "Cook" Craig is an Australian musician, singer and songwriter and is a part of groups King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and the Murlocs.{{cite web|url=https://weirdowasteland.com/2019/07/04/in-review-pipe-eye-inside-outside-flightless-2019/|title=In Review Pipe-Eye Inside/Outside|website=Weirdo Wasteland|date=4 July 2019|access-date=15 April 2021}} Craig releases music under the name Pipe-eye.
Solo history
Pipe-eye's debut EP Cosmic Blip was released in 2015. The EP was recorded in his bedroom in Fairfield, Victoria.{{cite web|url=https://lulusmelb.com/products/pipe-eye-cosmic-blip-lp|title= Pipe Eye "COSMIC BLIP" LP|website=Lulus Melb|access-date=15 April 2021}} Nicholas Johnson from Brag Magazine gave the EP 4 out of 5 saying "Pipe-Eye knows how to spit some serious cosmic wisdom. Then they leave you to ponder it over the course of the 30 to 60 second segue tracks that pepper the record. It adds a nice buffer to what is otherwise essentially a four-track EP by giving it a theatrical feel… It may not resonate with everyone, I'm sure some will feel cheated by the 50 per cent split between songs and noisy interludes. But it gives the songs – all of which would stand quite nicely as singles – a little bit of breathing space without the risk of adding half-baked tracks for the sake of filler."{{cite web|url=https://thebrag.com/pipe-eye-cosmic-blip/|title= Pipe-Eye: Cosmic Blip |website=Brag Magazine|date=2015|access-date=15 April 2021}}
Pipe-eye's debut studio album Laugh About Life was written over two years and released in April 2017.{{cite web|url=https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/cd-pipe-eye-laugh-about-life-cd?queryID=2e97860cdc3d9adae942324687df512e&objectID=421893|title= Laugh About Life (CD)|website=JB Hi-Fi|access-date=15 April 2021}}
Pipe-eye's second studio album Inside/Outside was released in June 2019.{{cite web|url= https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/vinyl-pipe-eye-inside-outside-vinyl-lp?queryID=2c64bde2a5c66defe5889e0264a334e8&objectID=388228 |title=Pipe Eye Inside/Outside (LP)|website=JB HiFi|access-date=15 April 2021}} Jonathan Reyoso from Beat Magazine gave the album a 6.5 out of 10.{{cite web|url=https://www.beat.com.au/king-gizzard-member-cook-craigs-new-solo-album-is-bubbly-and-spacious/ |title= King Gizzard member Cook Craig's new solo album is bubbly and spacious|website=Beat Magazine|date=September 2019|access-date=15 April 2021}}
In April 2021, Pipe-eye's re-released Cosmic Blip and Laugh About Life on limited edition LP. They debuted at numbers one and two on the ARIA Vinyl chart for the week commencing 12 April 2021.{{cite web|url=http://cdn.aria.com.au/pdfs/CC8815D60CA2FC576243B4F53F7DCEC56F1BACC54D3D27D9CBF5EF245C8DBCBE/ARIA%20Vinyl%20Albums%20Chart.pdf?seq=36 |title=ARIA Vinyl Album Chart |website=ARIA|date=12 April 2021|access-date=15 April 2021}}
On 18 October 2024, Pipe-eye released Pipe-defy, his first LP to be released under p(doom) Records. It was described as "a stylistic departure from his previous albums", incorporating funk and synth elements from '70's and 80's dance songs.{{cite web |last1=Sterdan |first1=Darryl |title=
Discography
=Studio albums=
= With King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard =
{{main|King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard discography}}
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- 12 Bar Bruise (2012)
- Eyes Like the Sky (with Broderick Smith, 2013)
- Float Along – Fill Your Lungs (2013)
- Oddments (2014)
- I'm in Your Mind Fuzz (2014)
- Quarters! (2015)
- Paper Mâché Dream Balloon (2015)
- Nonagon Infinity (2016)
- Flying Microtonal Banana (2017)
- Murder of the Universe (ft. Leah Senior, 2017)
- Sketches of Brunswick East (with Mild High Club, 2017)
- Polygondwanaland (2017)
- Gumboot Soup (2017)
- Fishing for Fishies (2019)
- Infest the Rats' Nest (2019)
- K.G. (2020)
- L.W. (2021)
- Butterfly 3000 (2021)
- Made in Timeland (2022)
- Omnium Gatherum (2022)
- Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava (2022)
- Laminated Denim (2022)
- Changes (2022)
- PetroDragonic Apocalypse (2023)
- The Silver Cord (2023)
- Flight b741 (2024)
- Phantom Island (2025)
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=Extended plays=
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References
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Category:21st-century Australian male singers
Category:Australian male songwriters
Category:Australian heavy metal guitarists
Category:Australian rock guitarists
Category:Australian rock singers
Category:Psychedelic rock musicians
Category:People from Fairfield, Victoria
Category:Musicians from Melbourne
Category:King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard members
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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