| Bent | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||
| 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 | |
|---|---|
| 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]
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]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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