synthpop

There are three acts with the name Cleaner: 1. Screamo band from Tokyo Japan, released on oto records. Notably releasing a split with French screamo band Gantz. 2. Cleaner is also the name of a rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1996, Cleaner was a band that meshed the current hard edged industrial/alternative sound with a warmer, melodic sound. Cleaner was Michael Renninger on Bass, Eric Ediger on Lead Guitar, Ian Brumbaugh on Drums, Kevin Shaw on Rhythm Guitar, and Sarah Meech was Lead Vocals. They disbanded in 2001.

Growing up in one of Oxfordshire’s musical backwaters The Gullivers first turned to punk as their salvation but after time spent gigging around Oxfordshire and London their sound has evolved into more intriguing musical territory while retaining the harsher edge of their earlier work. after a couple of years of plying their trade around the only the most glamourous of toilet venues, The Gullivers have now been joined by Sophie McGrath on vocals and keyboards.

Pseudo Echo were an Australian new wave band. Formed in the early eighties by school friends Brian Canham (vocals, guitars, and keyboards) and Pierre Gigliotti (bass and keyboards), the band completed its lineup with Anthony Agiro (drums) and Tony Lugton (guitars and keyboards). Their first album Autumnal Park was an Ultravox-influenced album that yielded the Australian singles "Listening" (produced by Peter Dawkins) , "Stranger in Me", "Dancing Till Midnight", and "Beat for You". It was a mature album that gave little indication of their youth.

TSOMM (for the abbreviation) are a synth bomb, the fallout being incredible tron-pop, beat driven glam-rock fronted by melody making, flesh and blood drones. With deep, rhythmic electric guitar hooks, crispy clean black and white outfits and more vocoders than you can poke an antenna at, these two take their audience on a journey that starts with a ramp and drives through the still clean disco to the fragmenting and decaying sounds of the future.