Single Of The Day - "Blurred In The Background" by Spray

Spray are an alternative dance duo from Manchester, whose collection of off-beat, infectious and high-pulsating tracks spin from the archives of the 80s/90s club scene and take you for a ride outside your synth-pop comfort zone. They are a duo whose previous band, The Cuban Boys, achieved a cult following, after their single ‘Cognoscenti Vs Intelligentsia’ (a.k.a. The Hamster Dance Song) sold a million copies, reached number 4 in the UK single charts, landed them on Top of the Pops and, in the words of John Peel, was “the most requested song I’ve had since God Save The Queen”. They are also a duo who had the 2006 Eurovision hit, ‘Teenage Life’, which helped them spread their musical wings and led to the formation of Spray.

With Jenny McLaren (vocals/guitars) and Richard Autobahn (synths), Spray are an eclectic mix of honey-tinged vocals and sugar-coated synths, that sparkle and shine under the go-getter glitterball. They are also a duo whose angelic operatics rise above their sugar-coated synth-pop that tilts towards Celtic-dark-wave. Along with the ambient trance of dance-synths, Spray are a duo that roller-skate under the disco-ball, whilst wearing their favourite lip-gloss. They are a duo whose politically charged lyrics, invite you to join their utopia-party, whilst trying to make the world a better place.

In conjunction with their LP “Ambiguous Poems About Death”, released on 26th November 2021, Spray’s latest single “Blurred in The Background” has been selected as my “Single of The Day”. Also released on 26th November 2021, “Blurred in The Background” is a synth-pop sprinkle of electro-pop and electroclash that has been lifted and placed in a bedroom booth of mirror dancing and confessional dance-pop. It’s an infectious track, whose home-girl lyrics create a frank, humorous and endearing narrative. Through the floating harmonies, jittery synths and space-synths, “Blurred In The Background” circumnavigates a galaxy of digital debris, in a parallel universe of earth-bound glamour.

‘Hammered In An Airport’ https://youtu.be/Rah_nr5OHx8
Bandcamp https://spray.bandcamp.com/track/hammered-in-an-airport
Album pre-order http://snd.click/poems
Bandcamp https://spray.bandcamp.com/album/ambiguous-poems-about-death
Félicette (Space Cat)’ https://youtu.be/70VCY9Iu6qc