As with most Shoegazing bands their first few singles are the best ("Sunshine Smile","I´ll be your Saint", "Sistine Chapel Ceiling"), but the album ("Against Perfection") was a bit of a difficult affair. It still had some good tunes on it, but it seemed like they´d already wasted many songs on their b-sides.
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Their second album, which was pretty much ignored by the press and the record buying public, is much much better, one of many lost albums in the years of 92-94. They went for a more poppier sound, some songs dangerously close to New Order territory.
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In a weird twist of fate they split up 2 days before they were going to play Vienna (something that seems to happen quite often, must be our bad vibes), which really really pissed me off at the time.
Singer Piotr has started a new band called Polak, who are absolutely fantastic, try and get your hands on 3x3, the singles compilation and the album Swansongs, ace.
about Sunshine Smile: Select May 1992 "Adorable are all spangliness and euphoria, making the kind of plangent racket that will have you pledging your life to them if you´re not careful..."
about Sunshine Smile: MM "... Piotr´s gormless vocals only increase the urge to smash the bleeder in the face with a blunt instrument ..."
Live Review, MM June 1992: "Adorable have a fine sense of humour and irony that rescures them from the ranks of the mediocre and renders them profound."
about I´ll Be Your Saint: MM "... Adorable is a bad word. It implies in its subject a profound and remorseless cuddliness and, in its user, an irrepressible insincerity. As a name for a band, it is a fucking catastrophe ..."
about Against Perfection, Select April 1993: "The Railway Children revival finally kicks in!"
Piotr: MM "I find it quite surprising that we´re the only decent band nudging teenagerdom."
Adorable records I own:
The Wandering Minstrel´s Adorable page
