Adam Hopper

What a great sound!” John Kennedy, Radio X

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

“I encourage you to submit yourself to this beautiful, and rare, kind of blessing.” Hive Magazine

“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

Ahead of shows coming up with British Birds, Good News and The Wave Pictures, Manchester’s Adam Hopper & The Wimps share breezy, whimsical new single ‘The Butterfly’ - out today (24th October)

Releasing via cult Sheffield-based label Bingo Records - responsible for offerings from The Bug Club and Melin Melyn - ‘The Butterfly’ serves up the quintet’s most succinct statement to date. Clocking in at just two minutes, the track spills out its awkward anti-folk charm and coy bittersweetness in a flurry of jangling rhythms and sweetened vocal duets - recalling the likes of The Moldy Peaches and Belle and Sebastian.

Produced by Zac Barfoot (Mr Ben & The Bens), ‘The Butterfly’ sounds the curtain call on a year which has seen the band sell out their debut headline show at Manchester’s Low Four Studios and win praise from the likes of John Kennedy (Radio X), Hard of Hearing, When The Horn Blows and The Indie Scene. Offering more on the track, Adam says:

“The Butterfly is a song about hiding away from the sad world in the safety of your quilt cocoon, before emerging once more into the daylight, rejuvenated, to slay your enemies.”

Formerly of now-defunct post-punk outfit Blanketman, Manchester’s Adam Hopper began performing solo in 2022, turning his hand to a sweeter,  more wistful, and melodic brand of Anti-folk-tinged songwriting. Adam’s music now looked towards finding hope and fantasy in the everyday and seemingly benign - think video games, gardening or looking after his cat Pippa.

 Forming The Wimps last year from friends and local musicians (Autocamper, The Accident Group), the newly assembled five-piece have since performed regularly across the cities and provincial towns of North West England. Their debut release, ‘Like Dancers Do / ‘Robin Hood’s Bay’ - released via Bingo Records earlier this year - was marked by a sold-out debut headline show at Manchester’s Low Four Studios in May

With a handful of solo singles already to his name, Hopper and his Wimps have already garnered acclaim from Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent Competition Longlist, Rough Trade Counter Culture, Radio X (John Kennedy), The Indie Scene, The Most Radicalist,  When The Horn Blows, Clunk,  Blogotheque, Hard of Hearing, Post-Brexit Pop, Wax Music  and Backseat Mafia,  earning support slots all the while for Ethan P. Flynn, Jesca Hoop, The Golden Dregs, The Lounge Society, Mr Ben & The Bens and Langkamer