Peppermint Heaven - Precious Things
- Written by Katherine Rippon
Peppermint Heaven are unlike the majority of their contemporaries. While the last decade has seen everyone from Little Boots to La Roux and Blood Orange take inspiration from the 80s, nobody has tried to fully emulate the sound so definitively belonging to the set period of time. Peppermint Heaven may be a relatively new act, but anyone that picks up their mind-blowingly, brilliant debut album: Precious Things, will immediately be transported by this ingenious earworm of a time machine.
With their key influences worn firmly on their sleeve, Precious Things takes all the best elements of Duran Duran, Visage, David Bowie and the Pet Shop Boys and blends them together to craft a record that will have you hooked from the moment you press play.
Rather interestingly, in an era that is deemed single heavy, Peppermint Heaven proves that their well constructed album contains no less than 11 single worthy songs that are only enhanced by the experience of listening to them as a body of work, as opposed to dipping in and dipping out as you please on a Spotify playlist.
While each one of the album tracks has single potential, there are definite highlights. The irrepressible 'Foreign Feeling' will have you singing its hook for weeks on end. The dramatic flair of 'Stranger Than Fiction' has Steve Strange written all over it - and boy do we miss him and Visage! The electro hook of 'Decide 4 Yourself' provides you with the perfect excuse to get down and dirty dance in front of the mirror with your hairbrush in hand. However it is the funktastic, harmony-driven explosion of album closer, 'Talk To Me' that we only hope will be gracing top tracks of 2016 lists come the end of the year.
Precious Things may not tread new ground, but it never intended to do so. This is shamelessly awesome '80s synth pop, made as boldly and brilliantly as it was in its heyday.
Precious Things is available from Amazon.
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