REVIEW: Andrea Pizzo and the Purple Mice – ‘We Are All Bots’

With their newest EP ‘We Are All Bots’, Andrea Pizzo and the Purple Mice deliver a brief but potent triptych that scans the digital age from three vastly different vantage points, each one orbiting the same question: What does it mean to be human in a world that increasingly isn’t?

Opening with the title-track, the group kick things off with a jolt of synth-driven urgency. Angular riffs and robotic cadences mirror our entanglement with screens, echoing the creeping suspicion that somewhere along the way, we became the machine. It’s an anthemic warning wrapped in electric static; equal parts rock opera and sci-fi sermon.

From there, ‘To The Space and Beyond’ pivots outward, swapping clenched rhythms for soaring, panoramic synthscapes. There’s a cinematic quality here that gestures skyward; less rocket launch, more cosmic reflection. It’s the sound of humanity peering out into the void and asking not just where we’re going, but what we’re leaving behind.

The EP closes with ‘Eternità’, a sweeping theatrical number that straddles the line between classical grandeur and glam-inflected maximalism. Operatic vocals clash with the weight of time, mythology, and existential yearning. Like Queen fronting a space-bound symphony. It’s as absurd as it is affecting, and all the better for it.

‘We Are All Bots’ isn’t afraid to be strange, earnest, or grandiose. It wears its influences proudly, from the celestial drama of Vangelis to the fearless theatricality of Muse. But it also carves its own lane, one where science fiction meets philosophical meditation. In just ten minutes, Andrea Pizzo and the Purple Mice manage to hold up a mirror to the present while imagining what lies far beyond it.