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Adam Hopper

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city: Manchester
country: UK
genre: Alternative, Indie
styles: Bedroom, Indie Pop, Alt-Pop, Anti-Folk, Lo-Fi

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It's What Your Friends Don't Say That Hurts You the Most

out on April 24, 2025

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Reviews and Comments

“like a breath of fresh air…Hopper’s words feel organic and genuine. Their simplicity is cathartically unpretentious” The Line of Best Fit

“so sweet it feels like it could clear away the clouds on a rainy day.” Far Out

“bursts to life with jangly guitars, swirling harmonica, and a buoyant rhythm section that channels the carefree charm of a bygone era….” The New Age

“as lovably English and eccentric as it is genuinely catchy” The Indie Scene

“exceedingly charming… puts the Manchester-based Adam Hopper and the Wimps on the map of Britain’s own fine jangle rock landscape.” Hard of Hearing

“So likeable and positive that you can’t help but smile” - Clunk

Anticipating the release of debut EP Remember To Have Fun - due 8th May - Manchester’s Adam Hopper & The Wimps share second EP teaser - the bruisingly bittersweet ‘It’s What Your Friends Don’t Say That Hurt You The Most’ - out today (24th April).

Infused with a jangle-pop sensibility, an affable heart-on-sleeve confessionalism, and an ever-sunny disposition that lands somewhere between the anti-folk of The Moldy Peaches and beaming narratives of The Beautiful South, this latest cut continues to reflect the key themes explored across the upcoming EP, namely, the recovery of childhood innocence, and a veneration of the benign, yet invaluable interactions that shape our everyday lives.

Heralded next month with a series of co-headline tour dates with British Birds, and an intimate homecoming show at The Castle Hotel, it follows a sell-out debut headline at Low Four Studios last year, and a plethora of support slots for the likes of Chris Cohen, Ethan P. Flynn, Jesca Hoop and The Golden Dregs

It also follows the rollicking 60s-garage-inspired blasts of lead single ‘My Friend Al’, which earned the band airplay on BBC Radio 6Music (Amy Lamé), BBC Introducing (Emily Pilbeam) and Radio X (John Kennedy), to add to a wealth or press backing which includes The Line of Best Fit, Far Out, Rough Trade, Clunk, The New Age Magazine, Blogotheque, Hard of Hearing and The Indie Scene.

Offering more on the new single, Adam says, simply: “This song is kind of autobiographical – I can be really bad at keeping in touch, with both friends and family. This is kind of a kick up my own arse to make a better effort.”

[Blue Moon Press]