Mosant - 'Midnight Television'

The conventional wisdom about discographies asserts that most debut albums go one of two ways. They are either hastily made before a band has fully formed its identity, or they feature songs that a band has had the luxury to carefully craft for years before committing to tape. Cincinnati-based four-piece Mosant is the rare band that has found a third path: writing and recording an album with staggering speed and confidence and emerging as one of the best pop-rock bands in recent memory. Originally formed as a vehicle for vocalist/bass player Chandler Hoffert’s propulsive songs, Mosant released the killer double-single “Critical” / “(Not the) Only One” in 2022. Coalescing into its current configuration in the spring of that year, the band shifted into a rich collaborative mode, finding beautiful common ground and compelling friction in a four-way partnership that mischievously mashes buzzy power-pop hooks, prog-rock left turns, bighearted soul, and sumptuous harmonies. The resulting debut, Midnight Television, recorded at Cincinnati’s Marble Garden with Isaac Karns, perfectly captures the spitfire energy of a young band while confidently absorbing 60 years of pop music.