Milwaukee pop-rock trio Adorner anointed themselves as such after the name appeared in a dream of project leader Madeline Stadel. Rather than staying dormant during the pandemic, Adorner used the downtime to incubate songs Stadel had been writing for years.
2024 sees the band shaping into a more cohesive project, anchored to Stadel’s powerful vocals, intricate choir-rooted harmonies, proggy synths and jammy electric guitars. Adorner’s newest single, “Every Night,” comes out this month, with their first full-length album set to release this year.
– ERIN WOLF
It’s time to pick your Milwaukee favorites for the year!
Your music doesn’t really belong to any one era. Who are some of your formative influences?
Stadel: It’s been most of my life that I’ve been a Radiohead fan, and you can really hear that. “Lucidity” is what got me into Tame Impala … and then Rush. … Those are kind of my big three.
Did you start out with piano, or were you into keyboards and synths?
Well, actually, neither. I was a singer from an early age. My mom used to hold me when I was a baby and sing to me. I would wait until she would breathe, and then we would breathe together. So, even before I was singing, I was singing. My mom plays piano, so she was my first teacher. I started when I was like 5 or 6, and it wasn’t until a little bit later where she taught me about chord theory. I just kind of took that and ran with it.
The full interview is available at radiomilwaukee.org.
