Cook Craig

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.^[1] Craig releases music under the name Pipe-eye.

Cook Craig
Craig performing with King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard in 2023
Background information
Birth name	Nicholas Roderick Craig
Born	Australia
Genres	Psychedelic rock garage rock psychedelic pop
Occupations	Musician singer songwriter
Instruments	Guitar vocals bass guitar keyboards
Years active	2008–present
Labels	Flightless p(doom)
Member of	King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard The Murlocs

Solo history

Pipe-eye's debut EP Cosmic Blip was released in 2015. The EP was recorded in his bedroom in Fairfield, Victoria.^[2] 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."^[3]

Pipe-eye's debut studio album Laugh About Life was written over two years and released in April 2017.^[4]

Pipe-eye's second studio album Inside/Outside was released in June 2019.^[5] Jonathan Reyoso from Beat Magazine gave the album a 6.5 out of 10.^[6]

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.^[7]

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.^[8]

Discography

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected details and chart positions

Title	Details	Peak chart positions
		AUS [9]
Laugh About Life	Released: April 21, 2017[4][10] Label: Flightless (FLT-027) Formats: CD, LP, digital download, streaming	88
Inside/Outside	Released: June 7, 2019[5][11] Label: Flightless (FLT-050) Formats: LP, digital download, streaming	—
Dream Themes	Released: November 26, 2021[12] Label: Flightless (FLT-080) Formats: LP, digital download, streaming	—
Pipe-defy	Released: October 18, 2024[13] Label: p(doom) Formats: LP, digital download, streaming	—

With King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

Main article: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard discography

• 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)

Extended plays

List of EPs, with selected details and chart positions

Title	Details	Peak chart positions
		AUS [9]
Cosmic Blip	Released: September 25, 2015[14] Label: Flightless (FLT-016) Formats: LP, digital download, streaming	64