Thanks to everyone who has taken a listen to and downloaded for free ‘Stripper Music! the second e.p.’ in the last few weeks. The cockles of my heart are totally warmed, and if you had known what shape those cockles were in before, you’d know that means something.

‘Stripper Music!’ is still up for free grabs for anybody who’d like a taste and all I’ll take in return is your email address. For those who are easily scared off by such things, just wanted to let you know that your email address doesn’t go anywhere but in my pocket and that means you’ll get an email from me any time something musically inclined goes down in the Craig Moorhead / Oxygen Destroyer universe, be it albums, gigs, videos, or whatevs.

There is exactly one review of ‘Stripper Music!’ up online that was written by someone who wasn’t me or a friend of mine. It’s by a cool dude named Craig Clarke and here’s a bit of it:

After multiple listens to Craig Moorhead’s album Bold Experiment, I wanted to hear more. Fortunately, around that time, he released Stripper Music: The Second EP, and it’s even better in some ways than its predecessor.

Our man, Craig, is obviously stretching himself on each new release. Stripper Music opens with a lovely, soothing keyboard instrumental that I could almost call “new-agey” (but I won’t). The second track, “Nothing to Do with What Happened,” is a highlight, with lyrics that are by turns serious, clever, and quirky. And his remix (“remixxx”) of mk12′s “The Heat of the Ninja” is a stunning foray into sound effects and overdubs, the like of which I have not heard from the usually “lo-fi” Moorhead.

Hit the link to read more.

Hold up, hold up, you may be saying. What do you mean by Oxygen Destroyer? I’m glad you asked. Oxygen Destroyer is the name by which me and m’wife will go as we embark on our non-solo career. K is a fine drummer from way back and has served in many, many DC area bands over the years. My favorite characteristic of her playing is that she hates to play anything slow. So don’t expect any power ballads. Mostly, it’ll be punky garage rock, real fast, real messy, and real loud. But that’s if we can get our crap together and start rehearsing. There are all kinds of plans in the works and our boy can already play the tambourine… sorta… so it’s gonna be a real Partridge Family-type situation, but maybe with more swearing and feedback.

Much more to come…