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Against Perfection... and yet it nearly touches perfection. A 1993 album, a quartet from Coventry led by singer Piotr Fijalkowski and guitarist Robert Dillam, brings to light a record with countless nuances that revolve around the melancholy of the Cure and Echo and the Bunnymen and dive into the shoegaze of My Bloody Valentine. They are placed, or better, placed by the English critics into that melting pot known to most as Brit Pop and somehow the melodic lines of Adorable remind one of bands like Verve and Suede (not Oasis though...) but there's a stronger pull to those atmospheres dear to My Bloody Valentine that form their spirit and set them apart from that melting pot of sounds...
Right from the first track "Sunshine Smile" the Adorable do not sound bland, with guitars erecting stunning, overwhelming walls of sound, a well-present melody, and a bass that closely resembles the Cure, a smile to the melancholy suspended between shoegaze and dream pop.
A smile and a warm, tense melancholic embrace that we find in all 12 tracks of an album unjustly or justifiably you will judge (wise Debaserian people...) that has fallen into anonymity and buried under that avalanche of albums that would soon arrive on the English market.
After this work, Adorable will publish a second album in 1994, "Fake", more intimate and introspective, and then disband definitively. However, it remains a precious and melancholic record of a band that had inserted itself into an evolving musical context that soon forgot them.
After all....
Can you see me? I can't see myself
Can you hear me? I can hardly hear myself
And I don't want to be a faded memory
All I want is to be me
I don't want to be faded skin
I don't want to fade out
I want to fade in
I want to fade in...
...sang Adorable themselves, perhaps ironically.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
07 Cut #2 (04:42)
Cut #2
Why did you say
That one line that I just so hate?
If only those three words
If only they could just dissipate
Said without meaning
You said half asleep
Said without feeling
You really cut so deep
You really cut into me
You really cut into, you really cut in
Hold on a while
Maybe your heart will follow your mouth
Hold on a while
Maybe you'll feel what came slipping out
Said without meaning
Said half asleep
Said without feeling
You really cut so deep
You really cut into me
You really cut into, you really cut in
Cut into me, cut right through me
Cut into me, cut right through
Cut into me, cut right through me
Cut into me, cut right through
I never thought that you knew me
I never thought that you knew me
I never thought that you knew me
I never thought that you, you
Oh, you cut
Oh, you cut
Oh, you cut, you cut, you cut
08 Crash Sight (04:02)
Here I stand all alone
My shaking hands are all I own
And your star-struck lips
They just reminded me of what I've missed
What I've kissed
Shiver at the sight of you
Shiver when you shine to view
Shiver when you come crashing through
Shiver at, shiver at the sight of you
Shiver when you come shining
This is the only way out, this is the only way to go
This is the only way out, this is the only way I know
I know
Shiver at the sight of you
Shiver when you shine to view
Shiver when you come crashing through
Shiver at the sight of you
Shiver when you come shining through
Shiver at the sight of you
Shiver when you come...
Shiver at the sight of you
Shiver when you come crashing through
Shiver at the sight of you
Shiver when you come shining through
Shiver at the sight of you
Shiver when you come crashing through
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