Released via cult Sheffield label Bingo Records (The Bug Club, Melyn Melin), Adam Hopper & The Wimps offer up an aching nostalgia with new single ‘Alexandra Park’ – out today.
Named after the park of the same name in the band’s hometown of Manchester, the track touches on the softer, more intimate sides of the band’s oeuvre, baked under the heat of childhood nostalgia and anti-folk awkwardness. Lush, delicate and introspective with Moldy Peaches style harmonies. It is a sweet, charming and emotionally raw single, that would be the perfect soundtrack to an indie movie.
Accompanied by music video filmed at the park itself, discussing the single, Adam says: “Alexandra Park is an old song of mine and has been a staple in the set for the year that The Wimps have been together. It was written during lockdown and I felt lucky to live next to such a beautiful park that I could visit. It felt like the right time of year to release this song and a nice way to close the book on this first year as a band”
The single rounds of a busy first year for Adam Hopper & The Wimps, which has seen them sell-out their debut headline at Low Four Studios, share stages with the likes of Chris Cohen, The Golden Dregs, Langkamer, British Birds, Good News, The Wave Pictures and Pys Melin, and court the favour of John Kennedy (Radio X), Hard of Hearing, When The Horn Blows, The Indie Scene and The Most Radicalist.
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. 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) to name a few.
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