Ones To Watch: Peppermint Heaven
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Location: New York, USA
Members: Juno & Spark
Genre: Indie/Pop
After cutting their teeth playing the Chicago indie club scene several years back, Peppermint Heaven aka Juno (Vocals, Keyboards) and Spark (Vocals, Bass, Drums) separately made the long trek from Chicago to LA eventually winding up together in the summer of 2011 when they began creating their own tasty brand of 80s-influenced indie pop, replete with heavenly harmonies, Juno’s delicious keyboard hooks and Spark’s inventive bass ‘n’ beats.
Taking their name from an obscure pre-Smiths Morrissey song, Peppermint Heaven found a home at indie band playground The Bedrock in LA’s storied Echo Park area and several months of playing, writing, recording, mixing, and honing their sound followed. After a wintry trip to London in early 2013, the boys decided that the UK would be the perfect launching pad for the band. This made perfect sense, as many of their influences hail from the UK (Tears For Fears, Pet Shop Boys, Simple Minds, New Order, Howard Jones, Psychedelic Furs to name a few).
Journeying through Erasure driven explosion of the cool grooves of Decide 4 Yourself to the social comment of tantric The Cage That We Live In through to the uplifting breeze of The Girl I Used To Know and the irrepressible earworm Foreign Feeling, their debut album Precious Things is an ambitious debut that delivers what the duo have always promised – a big nostalgic 80s driven, contemporary pop record. The duo have since shared a club shattering remix EP featuring dance legends Seamus Haji & AM2PM.. Hailing back to the acts club roots.
Keep up to date and connect with Peppermint Heaven using the following links:
www.peppermintheaven.com
Twitter: @pepperminthvn
Facebook: Peppermint Heaven
Soundcloud: Pepperminthvn
Youtube: Pepperminthvn
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