Artist description Sexy synth-pop band centered around singer/songwriter Claudio Tinnirello.

Music Style Synth-pop/rock

Musical Influences Depeche Mode, OMD, Falco

Similar Artists OMD, Human League, A Flock Of Seagulls, Depeche Mode, Moonlife, Roxy Music, George Michael, Duran Duran

Artist History Something Stranger... was originally formed in 1991 in the UK. As a two-man electronic-pop band,Something Stranger... played live venues over a two year period. Claudio, the singer and songwriter, moved to the USA and the band was putinto hiatus.In 1998, based in California, Claudio revivedSomething Stranger... as a solo project. Workingwith producer Polo Jones, who has worked with artists such as Italian rock singer Zucchero and Whitney Houston, Something Stranger... recorded its debut album The Fear Of Words. This album wasrecorded and mixed in Santa Cruz and San Jose, California.

Group Members Claudio Tinnirello, Martin Savage

Instruments Keyboards, synths, guitars, samplers, vocals.

Albums The Fear Of Words

Press Reviews Santa Cruz Good Times - 19th August, 1999 Something Stranger - The Fear of WordsRemember Tears for Fears, Human League and A Flock of Seagulls? Claudio Tinnirello of SomethingStranger plays capable, professional synth-rock reminiscent of some of the '80s stuff we came up listening to on top-40 radio stations. Perhaps most intensely, Something Stranger sounds eerily like Duran Duran. The opening riffs of The Fear of Words will take you back to those heady years of the '80s when pop seemed simultaneously in a rut and tantalizingly full of promise. What I'm most impressed with is the lyrics throughout The Fear of Words. These lyrics are more sophisticatedthan those sung by many of the big-name rock bandson MTV these days. There's an underlying note of male sensitivity from the first track to the last. In "Stay," he's the one saying he wants more out of the relationship! In "Sunset Bleeds,"he's putting it out there that he's there for hisgirl no matter what goes down. In "Right Over," Tinnirello's ready to get it on, talking about how he lit all the candles, everything is ready, and he can't wait to see his woman bathed in the candle light. Despite being delivered in '80s parlance musically, the mood was convincingly sexy and would work as music to get it on to. --B.M.W.

Location San Francisco, California - USA

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