One of Britpop’s long-forgotten also-rans, Hopper had a moment after signing to Tony Wilson’s label Factory Too. But they disappeared as fast as they arrived.

Their 1995 debut album, English And French, was produced by Bernard Butler right after he left Suede, and engineered by Nigel Godrich straight from working on The Bends with Radiohead.

Formed three years earlier by singer Rachel Morris and guitarist Paul Shepperd, Hopper took shape with the addition of Chris Bowers (bass) and Matt Alexander (drums) and signed to Damaged Goods.

Their debut single Hunter arrived in January 1994 and their second, the Baby Oil Applicator EP became Steve Lamacq’s single of the week on Radio 1 and entered the Indie charts, but they never found mainstream success.

Their subsequent album was released during the peak of Britpop and suffered from lazy comparisons to other English female-fronted bands of the time such as Sleeper and Salad, Elastica and Echobelly.

Wasted was released as a single, an urgent pop-punk anthem built on crunchy guitars, against which Morris’s laconic vocal repeatedly told indie kids: “You look better when you’re wasted.”

Bad Kid failed to deo any better and nor did two mellower acoustic-driven songs, Ridiculous Day and Oh My Heartless.

Rachel Morris, who died in 2022, might easily have been a star with her unconventional singing style which would tend to emphasise different parts of lines when they were repeated in the songs.

After touring and promoting the album and its singles for 18 months, Hopper split in 1998 and Morris (aka Ratajski) worked on a solo project under the name Rachel Kyriaki.