Nearly everybody in the rock n roll business is, reluctantly, here to make friends. Maybe it’s because they’ve seen the interviews with ageing musicians who only half made it to the summit, who blame it all on not going to the right parties and not being nice enough to the right people. Maybe it’s because this is what their manager told them about what it takes to get ahead. This sort of behaviour would disgust Most Pit.
The trouble is that this sort of attitude, naturally, is translated to the music. And while songs about holding hands and chanting mantras of peace are all fine and sweet, they’re not precisely the kind that will get a new band noticed or most fans excited. Is anyone willing to take risks? Does anyone care enough about their art to purposely make it so as to piss people off?
The aptly titled Mosh Pit isn’t desperately searching for approval or for a hand up. In fact, the artist’s blend of modernised muscular grunge heard on single “LCD” owes more in attitude to punk-rock groups like The Dead Kennedys. It’s music meant to offend the majority of listeners. And, in this way, cleverly it’s also music that will mean an awful lot to a minority of listeners who feel angry and believe that they’re being talked down to by most modern songs. In this business, if you got anything to say, you yell it! Mosh Pit understands this better than most.
