Spray le dió la vuelta al mundo sin salir de casa con el lanzamiento de Ambiguous Poems About Death, su más reciente álbum, mismo que promocionaran con sencillos como Félicette (Space Cat), Hammered In An Airport, y Blurred In The Background, más como la vida sigue, a la par de nuevas presentaciones en vivo, siguen promocionando éste material, disponible en formato físico, CD, a través de http://snd.click/poems, y Bandcamp.

The Big Idea es la descripción de la situación que representa el ideal de lo que se supone son industrias creativas cuando, en realidad, no son más que un grupo de pepenadores sin talento quienes pretenden llevar las riendas de, por citar un ejemplo, nuestro joven, conservador, adoctrinado, fresa, y presuntamente castrado, mercado musical denominado «rock mexicano».

The Big Idea is our tribute to creatives, idealists and visionaries who pioneer concepts and ideas against backlash and resistance. The people who are then lauded and celebrated but only up until the point where big business works out how to monetize the idea. The line in the song «everybody loves you when they don’t understand what you’re doing – then you’re expendable» is our nod to those corporations who will mine the well of talent, but only until the alchemy from art to commerce is completed.
The Big Idea es nuestro tributo a los creativos, idealistas y visionarios que son pioneros en conceptos e ideas contra la reacción violenta y la resistencia. Las personas que luego son elogiadas y celebradas, pero solo hasta el punto en que las grandes empresas descubren cómo monetizar la idea. La línea de la canción «todos te aman cuando no entienden lo que estás haciendo, entonces eres prescindible» es nuestro guiño a esas corporaciones que explotarán el pozo del talento, pero solo hasta que la alquimia del arte al comercio está completada.

Ricardo Autobahn

Spray have begun touring and playing live in recent years for the first time – and our songwriting style has slightly shifted to accommodate that. Having previously written albums purely from a studio perspective, this time we wanted to write a live anthem, a huge feelgood song with wide chords and melodies. No gimmicks. Like Coldplay but without all the unpleasantness.
Spray ha comenzado a hacer giras y tocar en vivo en los últimos años por primera vez, y nuestro estilo de composición ha cambiado ligeramente para adaptarse a eso. Habiendo escrito álbumes anteriormente, exclusivamente desde una perspectiva de estudio, esta vez queríamos escribir un himno en vivo, una gran canción para sentirse bien con acordes amplios y melodías. Sin trucos. Como Coldplay pero sin toda la insatisfacción.

Jenny McLaren

Spray, The Big Idea…

Down in the depths of your soul
There’s a thought and you know that it’s gold
It’s the idea of an age
Now to take it from neurons to the stage
Rollerskates on the stairs
Disdain from millionaires
But you really don’t care, you plough on
And you run and you run
Fighting advice from everyone
Because you’ve found it

And the big idea
Will be engineered
For the pioneers
By the volunteers
And the big idea
Will rock and change the world
Change the world
And the big idea
Will be engineered
For the pioneers
By the volunteers
And the big idea
Will rock and change the world
Change the world
I think you know it will

Once you’d get untold support
Raised on shoulders and roundly endorsed
Oh you made friendships for life
Or it might be the pound signs in their eyes
But then plaudits come in
And the phone starts to ring
It’s those colleagues who thought you were dead
They say cease and desist
And they tell you you’ve been dismissed
They’ve monetized it

And the big idea
Will be commandeered
By the financiers
For the racketeers
And the big idea
Will stock exchange the world
Change the world
And the big idea
Will be commandeered
By the financiers
For the racketeers
And the big idea
Will stock exchange the world
I think you knew it would

It’s not just that everybody wants something from you
That’s a basic part of humanity
Everybody loves you when they don’t understand what you’re doing
Then you’re expendable

But it don’t need you
And it don’t need me
Cos the big idea
It’s roaming free
And it’s gonna live
Long after copyright expires
When you can’t contain
That burning flame
The big idea
Will rise again
And the big idea
Will rock and change the world