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Review: 'Spray'
'Ambiguous Poems About Death'   

-  Label: 'Analogue Trash/Bandcamp'
-  Genre: 'Pop' -  Release Date: '26.11.21.'

Our Rating:
Spray are a synth techno club pop indie band featuring former members of The Cuban Boys and have been involved in one Eurovision entry, but we won't hold that against them. The album was recorded separately during lock down by Ricardo Autobahn and Jenny Mclaren on two sides of Lancashire.

This opens with Blurred In The Background an indie synth pop song with techno edges and droll slightly ironic and sarcastic lyrics somewhere between Lola Dutronic and The Pet Shop Boys, that like most of the album should be playing in the background at some co-working space.

Felicette (Space Cat) takes a classic club beat and makes a sort of cyber space Helen Love style ballad sending a cat off out into space to be played in a mix with songs about Laika fighting it out in Babylon Zoo.

Mindless Insincere Ooze is almost as snarky as Wet Leg and is certainly taking aim at some similar targets of derision, only set to a thumping techno beat and some classic synth pop backing, that harks back to Bananarama or We've Got a Fuzzbox's more poppy stuff.

Hammered At An Airport really should be a huge club hit as they sing about how they should be Getting Hammered In An Airport, it's a tune to dovetail with Tokio Airport by The Metal Boys, while it reminds me of getting totally hammered at O'Hare in Chicago many years ago, when my plane had a 5 hour delay and I called a friend to meet me in the car park to help me get well hammered, before some drinks and staggering onto the flight. This is a great club pop tune.

Ted Talk is the bands own ideas for its own Ted Talk, or rather all the reasons why they are not about to give a Ted Talk, oh no none of that stuff for them, thank god as they would rather be down in a club having a good time and drinking the night away than watching some dweeb talking about nothing they want to hear about.

Enough Of The Small Talk, Where's My Money is the classic end of the night talk with the club management, as you try to get paid for a DJ set or performing or doing whatever they hired you for, come on I don't do this for the exposure mate, cough up the cash, a perfect wry set closer if you think you may have those problems.

Get Normal is a hymn to not fitting in and never getting called Normal god forbid, who'd want that set against the clubby synth pop, you'd better take some more wacky disco biscuits and totally fail to Get Normal to this party banger.

Ah Douche Canoe is about as Lola Dutronic as they get, this is sly and insidiously pointing of the finger, at a friend who is truly a Douche Canoe that they want to paddle out of there lives, so they can go back to the Will Powers lifestyle they dream of.

The Emergency Exit Man you know they guy that always hangs around the Emergency Exit claiming to be looking out for your safety while up to no good with his bags as he shows you the way to go.

The Big Idea is a soaring anthemic synth pop song to come up with that big world changing ideas, no matter what it is.

The album closes with We'll Look Back On This And Laugh which is the only obvious song about the pandemic and the aftermath in the hope that we've survived to live and party another day month and year with a heartbeat style beat and pulses to help remind us to stay alive and get back to the new normal and get used to people going on about how they survived the pandemic and are now immoral or is that immortal or immersed in the glossy synthpop world once more.

Find out more at https://spray.bandcamp.com/album/ambiguous-poems-about-death https://snd.click/poems https://www.facebook.com/spraypopmusic



  author: simonovitch

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