The Adult Net were a British indie pop band formed by British-based American singer and guitarist Brix Smith in 1984, while she was a member of The Fall.
[1] The group were initially assisted by several members of The Fall, including Simon Rogers, Craig Scanlon and Karl Burns.
After the band's 1989 debut album, The Honey Tangle, failed to chart, their label Fontana Records released them from their contract in 1990, and the group disbanded.
[3] At the time, the official band line-up was credited as Brix on vocals and guitar, Ottersley Kipling (i.e., Simon Rogers) on bass, Silki Guth (a.k.a.
[7] He noted that some songs took "a pointless country turn" but that The Honey Tangle was a "catchy power-folk-pop collection that sounds like a flashback to 1981 Los Angeles".
[7] While reviewing The Honey Tangle for Allmusic, Stewart Mason said that the band's early singles were "spiky marriages between guitars and electronics that owed much to the raincoat-clad heyday of Factory Records".
[8] Stewart went on to describe The Honey Tangle as "glossy, jangly, sweet-natured pop music that would sound perfectly at home in the Top 40 radio play lists of some alternate universe".