It’s a good day to be a fan of Alex The Astronaut and Paul Kelly, with the legendary singer-songwriter teaming up with Alex on the new single Cold Pizza.
A bright, optimistic tune ready to bring us all into spring, Cold Pizza is anchored by a ukulele and Alex’s always relatable, commanding voice, with their unmistakable songwriting abilities matching up with Kelly’s.
Alex The Astronaut gave fans a taste of the track on Wednesday (21 August) via an online presentation, making it through PowerPoint.
“I wanted to make this PowerPoint because I think it’s fun, the designs are much better than when I last used PowerPoint in year three, and I wanted to share this with the people who listen to my music—it’s been a while,” Alex shared in a statement.
Cold Pizza is an arresting exploration of “heartbreak and nostalgia,” per a press release, inspired by Alex’s own anecdote about eating a shared meal on the floor. It’s bittersweet, like any song digging into the aftermath of lost love should be.
Alex said about their new song and the Paul Kelly co-write, “To get to write a song about pizza with Mr Paul Kelly was my absolute childhood dream come true. The idea for the song started from a line in my notebook; ‘Today, for lunch, I had the margarita pizza we had sitting on the floor.’”
They continued, “I had three chords and a breakup to go from, and we were on. I love to race write, and Paul was like a wise tree, taking time to ponder over every line. Together we built the song up like a Lego into something that brought a tear to my eye when I read over the lyrics at the end of the day. Now it’s recorded and alive, and I can’t wait to share the magic of Cold Pizza with everyone.”
You can check out the lyric video to Cold Pizza below.
Cold Pizza follows Alex The Astronaut’s most recent album, 2022’s How To Grow A Sunflower Underwater. Since releasing that album, Alex has been studying acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). You can catch Alex The Astronaut at BIGSOUND next month.
