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]

Bent
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 18, 2012 (2012-09-18)
GenreElectropop[1]
Length72:00
LabelDovecote
Ssion chronology
Fools Gold
(2007)
Bent
(2012)
O
(2018)
Singles from Bent
  1. "Earthquake"
    Released: July 3, 2012[2]
  2. "Listen 2 the Girls"
    Released: September 4, 2012[3]
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic63/100[4]
Review scores
SourceRating
Now[5]
Pitchfork6.8/10[1]
Tiny Mix Tapes[6]

Critical reception

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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

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Bent track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Listen 2 the Girls"
  • Mike Cheever
  • Cody Critcheloe
  • Ian Pai
3:27
2."Blonde With U"Critcheloe4:17
3."Psy-Chic"Critcheloe2:51
4."Luvvbazaar"Critcheloe4:21
5."Earthquake"
  • Critcheloe
  • Albert Redwine
4:19
6."High"
  • Critcheloe
  • J. Ashley Miller
4:58
7."Growin"
  • Critcheloe
  • Miller
4:37
8."Credit In the Straight World"Stuart Moxham4:05
9."Feelz Good (4-Evr)"Critcheloe3:36
10."My Love Grows In the Dark"Critcheloe3:36
11."Nothing Happens At Nite"
  • Critcheloe
  • Miller
8:06
12."Weird Yearz"
  • Critcheloe
  • Miller
4:14
13."Psy-Chic" (MNDR Remix)Critcheloe3:46
14."Psy-Chic" (Avan Lava Remix)Critcheloe4:15
15."Weird Yearz" (Das Hussy Remix)
  • Critcheloe
  • Miller
6:00
16."My Love Grows In the Dark" (Physical Therapy Stink Remix)Critcheloe5:27

References

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  1. ^ a b c Grandy, Eric (July 29, 2011). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
  2. ^ "Earthquake - Single by Ssion". Apple Music. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
  3. ^ "Listen 2 the Girls - Single by Ssion". Apple Music. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
  5. ^ Ritchie, Kevin (October 11, 2012). "Ssion's Bent Celebrates the artifice of club culture". Now. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
  6. ^ a b Tao, Conrad. "Tiny Mix Tapes Review". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
  7. ^ "Bent by Ssion". Apple Music. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
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