Bent | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | September 18, 2012 | |||
Genre | Electropop[1] | |||
Length | 72:00 | |||
Label | Dovecote | |||
Ssion chronology | ||||
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Singles from Bent | ||||
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 63/100[4] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Now | [5] |
Pitchfork | 6.8/10[1] |
Tiny Mix Tapes | [6] |
Bent is the third studio album by American musician Cody Critcheloe, under his pseudonym Ssion. It was released on September 18, 2012, by Dovecote Records.[7]
Critical reception
Bent was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 63 based on 4 reviews.[4]
In a review for Tiny Mix Tapes, critic reviewer Conrad Tao wrote: "Bent, the band’s newest record, is brazenly shallow pop music, aware of and confident in its insubstantiality and general tackiness. Bent seems like a fashionable record at the moment is curious — the witch house camp's visual sense is closely aligned with Cody Critcheloe's distinctive artwork, and 1980s pop deconstructionism is certainly experiencing a particularly strong renaissance right now."[6] Eric Grandy of Pitchfork said: "It's unfair to judge Bent as a stand-alone object, as the point or the primary document of the SSION project rather than as merely one prong of many in a multimedia pincer attack."[1]
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Listen 2 the Girls" |
| 3:27 |
2. | "Blonde With U" | Critcheloe | 4:17 |
3. | "Psy-Chic" | Critcheloe | 2:51 |
4. | "Luvvbazaar" | Critcheloe | 4:21 |
5. | "Earthquake" |
| 4:19 |
6. | "High" |
| 4:58 |
7. | "Growin" |
| 4:37 |
8. | "Credit In the Straight World" | Stuart Moxham | 4:05 |
9. | "Feelz Good (4-Evr)" | Critcheloe | 3:36 |
10. | "My Love Grows In the Dark" | Critcheloe | 3:36 |
11. | "Nothing Happens At Nite" |
| 8:06 |
12. | "Weird Yearz" |
| 4:14 |
13. | "Psy-Chic" (MNDR Remix) | Critcheloe | 3:46 |
14. | "Psy-Chic" (Avan Lava Remix) | Critcheloe | 4:15 |
15. | "Weird Yearz" (Das Hussy Remix) |
| 6:00 |
16. | "My Love Grows In the Dark" (Physical Therapy Stink Remix) | Critcheloe | 5:27 |
References
- 1 2 3 Grandy, Eric (July 29, 2011). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
- ↑ "Earthquake - Single by Ssion". Apple Music. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
- ↑ "Listen 2 the Girls - Single by Ssion". Apple Music. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
- 1 2 "Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
- ↑ Ritchie, Kevin (October 11, 2012). "Ssion's Bent Celebrates the artifice of club culture". Now. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
- 1 2 Tao, Conrad. "Tiny Mix Tapes Review". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
- ↑ "Bent by Ssion". Apple Music. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
External links
- Bent at Discogs (list of releases)
- Bent at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
- Bent at Dovecote Records