On a dark morning in September 2020, Madeline Stadel awoke from a dream. In this dream, she saw the name “ADORNER” spelled out in gold, and surrounded by flowers. In her mind, it felt as if she was being called for the first time by a familiar name.
ADORNER’s music is a transcendent force of nature in with a personal mission to adorn their creation “for the sake of beauty alone”. The group is the brainchild of the Milwaukee native songwriter Madeline Stadel, leading the group with her evocative lyrics, big-synth-sounds, lush keyboards, and powerful vocals. Her songs are fully realized by her band on a progressive rock canvas that is both exciting and expansive. Together they play songs with a poetic disposition, combining energetic edge with soulful emotion, leading their listeners to a celestial and other-worldly state of mind with every song.
ADORNER officially formed in the Fall of 2020, and would go on to release their debut single “Right Time/ All the Time” in July of 2021. After much anticipation, they released their 5-song self-titled EP “ADORNER” in May 2022. In 2023, the group began playing shows outside of their hometown and branched into the Chicago music scene. They released a music video for their song “End Of My Rope”, and began to gain traction, as the group, described as “unique and powerful” by the Milwaukee Record, would then go on to begin recording their first full length album into the next year.
In 2024 the band began reaching new heights, as they kicked off a new season of performances at local venues such as the new VIVARIUM as the first band to ever play the new stage. They were featured guests at the 88Nine Radio Milwaukee’s State of Sound series, made an appearance at Summerfest, and they headlined one of the highest-attended nights of the 2024 Chill on the Hill season. The group additionally gained momentum regionally while anticipating their album release, performing their songs in the Midwest from Nashville, to Kansas City, to Chicago, and more. All the while, along with being in regular local radio rotation, ADORNER released a line of new singles “Nimwe”, “Backbone”, and “Every Night” leading up to the release of their first full length “ASCENSION” which they released in August, 2024.
ADORNER has been featured in local publications FOX-6, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 88Nine Radio Milwaukee, Shepard Express, Breaking and Entering, and Milwaukee Magazine under the title “Artists You Should Know”.
The road ahead stretches far for this unstoppable artist and there is much more to come.