Adam Hopper

“Exceedingly charming" Hard of Hearing

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

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

Signing to cult Sheffield-based indie label Bingo Records (The Bug Club, Melin Melyn, Wesley Gonzalez), Manchester’s Adam Hopper & The Wimps announce details of split 7” ‘Like Dancers Do’ / Robin Hood’s Bay’, digitally releasing its first side ‘Like Dancers Do’ today (April 24th).

Recorded entirely live in the studio with producer Zac Barfoot (Mr Ben & The Bens), ‘Like Dancers Do’ - like a sigh of satisfaction - breathes a cosy, empathetic warmth. Caught in a pleasant midland between The Velvet Underground’s ‘Oh Sweet Nuthin’ and The White Stripes’ ‘We’re Going To Be Friends’, sauntering rhythms, heart-warming melodies and pretty-as-you-like vocal duets bloom like spring blossom across its blushingly bashful 5 minute span.

Inspired, in part, by Guilllermo del Toro’s Pinocchio remake, songwriter Adam Hopper himself says this of ‘Like Dancers Do’: “I thought of this song while watching the most recent Pinocchio film. Like Pinocchio I am also wooden. Though I believe he is a better dancer than I am. It’s just a love song really”.

More about Adam Hopper & The Wimps:

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. Drawing inspiration from The Moldy Peaches, Belle and Sebastian and The Beautiful South, Hopper’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. Now Signing to Bingo Records, the release of ‘Like Dancers Do’ is celebrated with performances at London’s The Social, and a debut headline show at Manchester’s Low Four Studios on 10th May - Tickets here

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, Clunk, Hive Magazine, Blogotheque, Hard of Hearing, Post-Brexit Pop and Backseat Mafia, Earning support slots with Jesca Hoop, The Lounge Society, Mr Ben & The Bens and Langkamer.