Ssion

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Earthquake 00:00 Tools
LUVVBAZAAR 04:21 Tools
At Least the Sky is Blue 00:00 Tools
Bullshit 00:00 Tools
Clown 00:00 Tools
PSY-CHIC 00:00 Tools
MY LOVE GROWS IN THE DARK 00:00 Tools
Comeback 00:00 Tools
LISTEN 2 THE GRRRLS 00:00 Tools
High 00:00 Tools
BLONDE WITH U 00:00 Tools
GROWIN 00:00 Tools
Inherit 00:00 Tools
FEELZ GOOD (4-EVR) 00:00 Tools
Credit in the Straight World 00:00 Tools
Street Jizz 00:00 Tools
NOTHING HAPPENS AT NITE 00:00 Tools
Nick The Stripper 00:00 Tools
WEIRD YEARZ 00:00 Tools
Fear Us 00:00 Tools
A Wolves Eye 00:00 Tools
Heaven 00:00 Tools
Heaven Is My Thing Again 00:00 Tools
The Woman 00:00 Tools
Dayjob 00:00 Tools
Ah Ma 00:00 Tools
Big As I Can Dream 00:00 Tools
Warm Glove 00:00 Tools
1980-99 00:00 Tools
At Least The Sky Is Blue (Johnny Jewel's Moody Midnight Remix) 00:00 Tools
Forming 00:00 Tools
Clown (Glass Candy Remix) 00:00 Tools
Tell Me About It 00:00 Tools
Marc & Me 00:00 Tools
The Cruel Twirl 00:00 Tools
Dogs On Asphalt 00:00 Tools
Psy-Chic (Avan Lava Remix) 00:00 Tools
Psy-Chic (Chops And Screws Mndr Remix) 00:00 Tools
Let Me Down Like U 00:00 Tools
Free Lunch (Break) 00:00 Tools
What Makes A Man Start A Band? 00:00 Tools
My Life Is Beautiful 00:00 Tools
Weird Yearz (das hussy remix) 00:00 Tools
Call Out Our Lions 00:00 Tools
My Love Grows In The Dark (Physical Therapy Stink Remix) 00:00 Tools
My Love Grows In The Dark (POINDEXTER Remix) 00:00 Tools
Heaven Is My Thing Again - Hidden Track 00:00 Tools
Who's Your Favorite, Baby? 00:00 Tools
I Think I Got Something To Prove 00:00 Tools
I Fucking Care About You 00:00 Tools
Opportunity Bless My Soul 00:00 Tools
College 00:00 Tools
Ride The Snake Until It Shakes 00:00 Tools
Let Me Hear You Cry 00:00 Tools
At Least the Sky is Blue (feat. Ariel Pink) 00:00 Tools
Street Jizz [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
Listen To The Grrrls 00:00 Tools
Fear Us [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
Clown (MOVES!!! Remix) 00:00 Tools
A Wolves Eye [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
Dayjob [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
Ah-Ma [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
Heaven [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
Clown (Tactic Remix) 00:00 Tools
STREET JIZZ (RUFF IAN LEVINE REMIX) 00:00 Tools
I'm Hungry! 00:00 Tools
Clown (feat. The C.F. Bender Circus) 00:00 Tools
Ride My Inner Child 00:00 Tools
Clown (Glass Candy rmx ruff) 00:00 Tools
Clown (Single Mix) 00:00 Tools
Clowns (Glass Candy Remix) 00:00 Tools
At Least The Sky Is Blue (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
At Least The Sky Is Blue (Ft. Ariel Pink) 00:00 Tools
My Love Grows In The Dark (Nightfeelings Remix) 00:00 Tools
1980-99 (feat. Patty Schemel & Sky Ferreira) 00:00 Tools
The Cruel Twirl (feat. Róisín Murphy) 00:00 Tools
Let Me Down Like U (feat. MNDR) 00:00 Tools
Dogs On Asphalt (feat. Melissa Burns, Contessa Stuto & Jennifer Herrema) 00:00 Tools
anorexia rules, ok! 00:00 Tools
"Clown" (Glass Candy rmx) 00:00 Tools
Clown (Nomathmatics Sexy Suburb Mix) 00:00 Tools
Nightclubbin' 00:00 Tools
I Live in NYC and I am Beautiful 00:00 Tools
Dogs On Asphalt (ft. Contessa Stuto, Jennifer Herrema & Melissa Burns) 00:00 Tools
1980-99 (ft. Sky Ferreira & Patty Schemel) 00:00 Tools
The Cruel Twirl (ft. Róisín Murphy) 00:00 Tools
The Woman (feat. Michelle Nolan) 00:00 Tools
Warm Glove (feat. Mark Southerland) 00:00 Tools
Free Lunch (Break) [feat. Devendra Banhart] 00:00 Tools
Let Me Down Like U (ft. MNDR) 00:00 Tools
Get Aids off a Toilet Seat 00:00 Tools
Clown (Iggybaby Remix) 00:00 Tools
Heaven Is My Thing Again (ft. Ian Isiah, Jametatone & MNDR) 00:00 Tools
Heaven Is My Thing Again (feat. MNDR, Jametatone & Ian Isiah) [Hidden Track] 00:00 Tools
Clown (Glass Candy Alternate Mix) - Digital-only Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Bentmoves (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Madonna, Sean and Cody Critcheloe 00:00 Tools
Narcotics For The People 00:00 Tools
Bullshit (feat. Mark Southerland) 00:00 Tools
Gonna Faint 00:00 Tools
Bentmoves 00:00 Tools
Street J**z 00:00 Tools
Let Me Hear Your Cry 00:00 Tools
Clown (Glass Candy Instrumental) - Digital-only Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Clown (Noiss Remix) 00:00 Tools
Clown (Chrissy Murderbot Remix) 00:00 Tools
PSY-CHIC (Fire For Effect's P.I.I.Y.M. Remix) 00:00 Tools
Clown (DJ C Remix) 00:00 Tools
Street Jizz (Hawnay Troof Remix) 00:00 Tools
Free Lunch (Break) (ft. Devendra Banhart) 00:00 Tools
Street Jizz (Krazy Fiesta Remix) 00:00 Tools
MY LOVE GROWS IN THE DARK (PHYSICAL THERAPY REMIX) 00:00 Tools
I Don't Hate Everything 00:00 Tools
Fear Us (Nick Zinner Remix) 00:00 Tools
PSYCHIC (CLUB MIX) 00:00 Tools
B******t (feat. Mark Southerland) 00:00 Tools
when i was fat 00:00 Tools
world's worth 00:00 Tools
SSION MIX 4 DIS: "CRACK MY WITCH UP" 00:00 Tools
Don't Celebrate 00:00 Tools
Clown [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
Like A Prayer 00:00 Tools
Heaven Is My Thing Again (feat. Ian Isiah, MNDR & Jametatone) 00:00 Tools
Clown (Glass Candy rmx) 00:00 Tools
Precious Angel 00:00 Tools
Bullshit [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
SSION 00:00 Tools
Free Lunch (Feat. Devendra Banhart) 00:00 Tools
MY LOVE GROWS IN THE DARK (NIGHTFEELINGS REMI... 00:00 Tools
High (Ultrademon's Original 2008 Mix) 00:00 Tools
At Least the Sky Is Blue (Johnny Jewel's Moody Midnight Remix) [feat. Ariel Pink] 00:00 Tools
Warm Glove [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
Burn on Hell 00:00 Tools
Free Lunch (ft. Devendra Banhart) 00:00 Tools
The Woman [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
Fierce 00:00 Tools
Clown (Glass Candy Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Clown (Chrissy Murderbot Vocal Dub) - Digital-only Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Head and Heart 00:00 Tools
Heaven Is My Thing Again feat. Ian Isiah, MNDR, Jametatone 00:00 Tools
Free Lunch (Break) (feat. Devendra Banhart) 00:00 Tools
More Punk / More Real 00:00 Tools
Clown (Glass Candy Alternate Mix) 00:00 Tools
Chic 00:00 Tools
don't celebrate! 00:00 Tools
Credit in the Straight World (EXTENDED MIX) 00:00 Tools
Kim 00:00 Tools
Ah, Ma 00:00 Tools
A1 Clown (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
NOTHING HAPPENES AT NITE (TEAMS REMIX) 00:00 Tools
The Peach Pit - SSION MIX 00:00 Tools
my love grows in the dark (africa remix) 00:00 Tools
clown glass candy rmx ruff 00:00 Tools
Ssion - Clown 00:00 Tools
CRACK MY WITCH UP 00:00 Tools
"Earthquake" (Official Video) 00:00 Tools
A Queen's Struggle - The Poetica Remix 00:00 Tools
Ride The Snake 00:00 Tools
Wild and Romantic 00:00 Tools
Name Dropping 00:00 Tools
Marc Me 00:00 Tools
Nothing Happens at Nite (Joey Hansom remix) 00:00 Tools
, Clown (Glass Candy Remix) 00:00 Tools
Nothing Happens At Nite (Teams Remix) 00:00 Tools
psychic 00:00 Tools
The Women 00:00 Tools
I'm HUNGRY 00:00 Tools
Listen To The Girls 00:00 Tools
B******t 00:00 Tools
PSY-CHIC (Air Zaïre Remix) 00:00 Tools
Heaven Is My Thing Again (Hidden Track) (feat. MNDR, Jametatone & Ian Isiah) 00:00 Tools
Name-Dropping 00:00 Tools
Heaven Is My Thing Again (feat. MNDR, Jametatone & Ian Isiah) 00:00 Tools
Heaven Is My Thing Again (feat. Ian Isiah, Jametatone & MNDR) 00:00 Tools
A Wolf's Eye 00:00 Tools
street jizz (the original) 00:00 Tools
Psy Chic 00:00 Tools
City Grrl 00:00 Tools
smells like teen spirits 00:00 Tools
QUEEN'S STRUGGLE (Featuring Rachel Mesplay Helm) 2004 00:00 Tools
Ain't it Tragic 00:00 Tools
MY LOVE GROWS IN THE DARK (NIGHTFEELINGS... 00:00 Tools
PSY 00:00 Tools
1980-99 (feat. Sky Ferreira & Patty Schemel) 00:00 Tools
Dogs On Asphalt (feat. Contessa Stuto, Jennifer Herrema & Melissa Burns) 00:00 Tools
PSY-CHIC (Air Zaïre) 00:00 Tools
Nightclubbing 00:00 Tools
Listen 2 the Girls 00:00 Tools
Heaven Is My Thing Again (Hidden Track) 00:00 Tools
SSION - Inherit 00:00 Tools
NTR 00:00 Tools
At Least The Sky Is Blue (featuring Ariel Pink) 00:00 Tools
Tears of A Clown (Vocal) 00:00 Tools
The Peach Pit (Mix For Dazed) 00:00 Tools
My Love Grows In The Dark ( POINDEXTER Remix ) 00:00 Tools
asap 00:00 Tools
Whoop Dee Doo 00:00 Tools
Anorexia Rules, OK? 00:00 Tools
04 LUVVBAZAAR 00:00 Tools
A2 Clown (Glass Candy Remix) 00:00 Tools
anorexia rules ok 00:00 Tools
Credit in the Straight World (Hole Cover) 00:00 Tools
05 earthquake 00:00 Tools
Luvvbazaar (Shaun J. Wright and Alinka Remix Master 00:00 Tools
Feelz Good 00:00 Tools
Psy-Chic (Chops & Screws MNDR Rem 00:00 Tools
Ssion - The Woman 00:00 Tools
Clown (Chrissy Murderbot Vocal Dub) 00:00 Tools
Still Punk (featuring Tina Pee Pee) 2006 00:00 Tools
Ssion - Street Jizz (Ruff Ian Levine Remix) 00:00 Tools
PSY-CHiC (NIGHTFEELINGS REMIX) 00:00 Tools
Clown (original mix) 00:00 Tools
At Least The Sky Is Blue ft. Ariel Pink 00:00 Tools
My Love Grows In The Dark (Physic 00:00 Tools
Bullshit feat. Mark Southerland 00:00 Tools
Listen To The Grrrls (Ellie Herring Temple Rmx) 00:00 Tools
Put Peace In You 00:00 Tools
Ah Ma (Electrosexual Remix) 00:00 Tools
Clown [Glass Candy Remix] 00:00 Tools
FEELS GOOD FOREVER ACAPELLA 00:00 Tools
Love Bazaar (Adeptus District Mix) 00:00 Tools
I Can't Feel My Day Job 00:00 Tools
Luvvbazaar (Shaun J. Wright and Alinka Twirl Remix) 00:00 Tools
03 PSY-CHIC 00:00 Tools
02 blonde with u 00:00 Tools
more punk/more real 00:00 Tools
Ah Ma (Chrissy Murderbot Remix) 00:00 Tools
MY LOVE GROWS IN THE DARK ACAPELLA 00:00 Tools
LUVVBAZAAR ACAPELLA 00:00 Tools
Free Lunch 00:00 Tools
Credit in the stright world 00:00 Tools
Clown feat. The C.F. Bender Circus 00:00 Tools
Street Jizz (Ian Levine remix) 00:00 Tools
The Woman feat. Michelle Nolan 00:00 Tools
A Queen's Struggle 00:00 Tools
Ssion-11 Clown (Single Edit) 00:00 Tools
BLONDE WITH U ACAPELLA 2 - MAIN VOX 00:00 Tools
MY LOVE GROWS IN THE DARK (NIGHTFEELINGS MIX) 00:00 Tools
CLOWN GLASS CANDY RMX 00:00 Tools
Ssion - Clown (Glass Candy Remix) 00:00 Tools
I Think I Got Something to Pr 00:00 Tools
Ssion - Clowns (Glass Candy Remix) 00:00 Tools
Warm Glove (featuring Mark Southerland) 00:00 Tools
Feelz Good (4-Ever) 00:00 Tools
05 the woman 00:00 Tools
06 day job 00:00 Tools
09 ah ma 00:00 Tools
07 warm glove 00:00 Tools
Ssion - Heaven 00:00 Tools
a queen's struggle (featuring phoney baloney) 00:00 Tools
At Least The Sky Is Blue (feat. Ariel Pink) - Johnny Jewel's Moody Midnight Mix 00:00 Tools
Grown 00:00 Tools
EARTHQUAKE ACAPELLA 00:00 Tools
At Least The Sky Is Blue featuring Ariel Pink 00:00 Tools
a queen's struggle (the poetica remix) 00:00 Tools
Kim (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Ssion - Warm Glove 00:00 Tools
A Wolve's Eye 00:00 Tools
Nothing Happens At Night 00:00 Tools
Luvbazaar 00:00 Tools
Nick the Strippe 00:00 Tools
growing 00:00 Tools
02 bullshit 00:00 Tools
Credit In The Straight World (Young Marble Giants Cover) 00:00 Tools
I Don't Hate Everything (But I Want to) 00:00 Tools
Who's Your Favourite Baby 00:00 Tools
Ah Ma (Strategy Remix) 00:00 Tools
BLONDE WITH U ACAPELLA 1 - FX 00:00 Tools
My Love Grows In The Dark (Poisonous Relationship Remix) 00:00 Tools
09 my love grows in the dark 00:00 Tools
08 feelz good (4-evr) 00:00 Tools
Who Is Your Favorite, Baby? 00:00 Tools
BLONDE WITH U ACAPELLA 3 - OUTRO 00:00 Tools
Feelz Good (4evr) 00:00 Tools
GROWIN ACAPELLA 1 - MAIN VOX 00:00 Tools
GROWIN ACAPELLA 2 - DIVA 00:00 Tools
A.S.A.P. 00:00 Tools
Ssion - Fear Us 00:00 Tools
08 CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD 00:00 Tools
EARTHQUAKE3 00:00 Tools
Warm Glove feat. Mark Southerland 00:00 Tools
My Love Frows In The Dark (POINDEXTER Remix) 00:00 Tools
Bullsh*t 00:00 Tools
06 growin 00:00 Tools
10 nothing happens at nite 00:00 Tools
06 High 00:00 Tools
SQ5_12- Intercepting The Trans 00:00 Tools
11 weird yearz 00:00 Tools
Bullshit [PROFANITY] 00:00 Tools
Call Out Our Lion 00:00 Tools
PSY-CHIC ACAPELLA 3 - HI AND FX 00:00 Tools
Untitled 00:00 Tools
WEIRD YEARZ ACAPELLA 00:00 Tools
LISTEN 2 THE GRRRLS ACAPELLA 3 - LV's 00:00 Tools
Ssion-13 Street Jizz (Clean) 00:00 Tools
LISTEN 2 THE GRRRLS ACAPELLA 2 - BV's 00:00 Tools
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Ssion is a band led by Cody Critcheloe and their latest album is Bent (Jun 2011, self-released). As an BFA student at the Kansas City Art Institute, Critcheloe produced an animated short called The Lemon Cookie Revolution. Effectively, and often hilariously, blurring the two most popular definitions of "cult" beyond recognition, Critcheloe imagined himself poisoning his heroes with delicious snacks of the film's title, thereby assuming a place among them in the cred-fed indie pantheon. It's a crude and campy stop-motion animation piece with a soundtrack boasting Wire and the Pet Shop Boys, and it allows Critcheloe to indulge his two fascinations: ironically chiding subcultural "outsiders", and indulging in over-the-top wish-fulfillment fantasies. In his narrated introduction to the film, he introduces its two themes thusly: "Underground music cult figures you've probably never heard of, nor do you even care about. My second favorite thing in the whole wide world is, without a doubt, revolution." If "Fear Us", from Fool's Gold, Ssion's second album, is any indication, Critcheloe is now a member in good standing. The song documents (as "we") a caricatured, nihilistic hipster netherworld-- mirrored in the album's butched-out cover image-- as a cartoonish, unambiguously bold amalgam of gay subcultural stereotypes, which Critcheloe both calls attention to and celebrates. In the Revolution short, an ejaculating penis is a recurring motif symbolizing rapture, and Gold's first single, "Street Jizz", similarly approaches orgasm and its byproducts as the (equally metaphoric and literal, no doubt) quintessence of experience, the "white light" that pierces the dark of night. Any revolution needs converts to succeed, though, and the song's chorus doubles as a recruitment slogan: "It feels more dirty than it really is." As an anthem, "Jizz" is also ridiculously catchy and simple: Critcheloe's exhortations echo atop a buzzing synth melody doubling a spry disco bassline, with a refrain dripping with affirmation and aspiration. Appropriately for music that makes smut sound so enticing, Fool's Gold vacillates between glossy disco and squalid electro-punk. Between the kinky "Warm Glove", the petulant screamalong "Dayjob", and "Bullshit", Critcheloe's voice, buffered by plenty of fuzz and the occasional sax squonk, finds a middle-ground between the late-1990s incarnation of Royal Trux's Neil Hagerty and a spit-shined Darby Crash. Despite the textural shifts, the optimistic sentiment stays the same throughout: like CSS' "Fuckoff is Not the Only Thing You Have to Show", or Scissor Sisters' "Mary", Critcheloe keeps his advice blissfully simple: "Don't let the bullshit get you down." Ssion's tendency to weave sympathy and encouragement through the naughty bits-- erasing the boring distinctions between partying, sex, music, and boundless, delirious dreaming-- clearly aligns them with CSS, Scissor Sisters, and Junior Senior, their fellow purveyors of devilishly simple, self-reflexive, and undeniably catchy dance-pop. Fool's Gold kicks off with "Clown", a sinuously funky piano-driven disco jam that extols the virtues of using the club to take (not lose) control. It's impossible not to hear the refrain "pride, faith, heart and soul" as anything other than a statement of purpose, and in this context, the decision between living in the "trenches," or in a "house with picket fences" shouldn't take very long to make. While it's clear which of the two is more enticing, the glimmering banger "A Wolves Eye" still allows for keeping "your head in the clouds" while slinking through the underground. That metaphor extends to Fool's close; over an ecstatic, quasi-gospel synth shriek, "Heaven" proffers the same sort of take-no-prisoners approach from The Lemon Cookie Revolution (and hinted at in the title to the band's 2003 album Opportunity Bless My Soul): "Just to get you all dancin'/ I'd hold god up for ransom." In order to find redemption, sometimes it's just easiest to take out the deities and install yourself in their place. Sites: SoundCloud and Facebook. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.