Andrea Pizzo and The Purple Mice - Potatoes On Mars
Andrea Pizzo and The Purple Mice is a band of different artists that centers around the vocal talents of Andrea Pizzo. Centering around Pizzo’s voice, this group comes together to make some excellent music. Today we are excited to share our thoughts on Andrea Pizzo and The Purple Mice’s new album, Potatoes On Mars!
Potatoes On Mars begins with “Keep On Searching”, an electrifying opener to say the least. This song has a big kind of feeling to it, providing an encouraging message while simultaneously illustrating the depth of the universe and what there is to explore. “Song Of Nothing” follows and, wow, this is such a deep song with a deep feeling to it. Speaking to how finite the human experience is - our very lives - is a sobering but relatable revelation. “Among The Stars” is next. This groovy track plays like a montage of human space exploration though it segues into something much more existential in its second half.
The album’s title track, “Potatoes On Mars” is fourth and stands as one of the more unique tracks from the album, though it certainly embodies many of the themes featured within the album. In some ways, this song is a bit whimsical and I love it all the more for that. “Jupiter And The Galilean Moons” is the longest song from the album and it features five distinctive parts, covering the exploration and colonization of Jupiter and its moons. I love the more orchestral approach used in this song as it really gets the message across in a memorable and unique way.
Sixth from Potatoes On Mars is “Go Fishing In The Ocean Of Enceladus” and the band considers this song their “Yellow Submarine”. A gripping tale of “friendship and the unknown”, this song is such an impressively artistically driven piece and it stood out as one of my personal favorites from the album. Of all of the songs on the album, you really get the strongest feeling for this band’s love of space and science fiction motifs from this one. “Pale Blue Dot” follows and it serves as a tribute to the Voyager mission and Carl Sagan, referencing the famous Pale Blue Dot photograph with its title. I found this song to be a stirring tribute to my personal favorite space exploration project.
“Goldilocks Zone” is eighth and it weaves three interconnected stories that both literally and metaphorically discusses our limitations. Ninth is “Masters Of The Galaxy”, a pure rock spectacle that is ripe with energy. This one will blow you away with how powerful it is!
“Road To Universe” continues the pure Space Rock vibes. I found this song’s second half to have a profound kind of feeling and I really, really enjoyed the song as a whole - it is certainly a complete package. Closing out Potatoes On Mars is “Starship To Heaven” and it is a perfect album finisher, serving as one of the strongest individual songs from the album while also ending things with an exclamation point. Speaking on the day that humanity will be evolved enough to be able to “play chess with god”, well, I cannot imagine the album ending with any kind of message different from the one in this song.
Fittingly spacey and full of deep, vibrant and reverberating in its nature, Potatoes On Mars captures a great many elements of human nature, showcasing a rich understanding and plenty of able expression by Andrea Pizzo and The Purple Mice. I typically do not refer to music as “deep” anymore in an unironic way but there are so many layers to unpack in both this album’s soundscape and lyrics that you could easily lose yourself in this music for weeks. Featuring both literal scientific elements and ideas more fantastical, this album has some of the best space-related vibes you will ever find in music. You can keep up with Andrea Pizzo and The Purple Mice through their website, Instagram and Facebook. We have Potatoes On Mars embedded below via Spotify - and you can also find this group’s music on Apple Music!
