One of the secret weapons on Jessie Ware’s breakthrough album, Julio Bashmore is planning on release his own debut LP early next year. And what do you know? Ware hands a meaty hook over to one of her most consistent producers on “Peppermint,” a soon-to-be-hit-single Bashmore sets against a strobe-heavy bed of rubberized beats, brain-burrowing melodies and a stuttering “hot, hot, hot, hot, hot!” chorus.
If we didn’t just write up our Song of the Day, this would have been it.