Watch SSION's new short film "Inherit" from 2018 album O

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SSION gives us today the ultimate finale performance of 2018 with the release of short-film / music video centered around the song "Inherit" from his seminal LP released earlier this year, O ( DERO Arcade ).

The self-directed short film from the acclaimed director / visual & music artist Cody Critcheloe (SSION) features many of the same themes and characters from previous videos woven in to this grandiose spectacle that touches on everything from vanity and pop culture obsession to punk rock glamour and the end of heteronormative restraints.

Following the release of his third studio length release, SSION toured with Beth Ditto and Jake Shears, while releasing some of the most talked about music videos (for himself and others) of 2018.

On "Inherit", SSION shares "I wanted the music video for "Inherit" to pick up where "Comeback" left off, not really a sequel or providing any concrete conclusions, just a deeper dive into the dynamic between director & star / artist & muse and the soap opera that could potentially exist behind the scenes of creating a "show"... love affairs, obsession, delusion, rhinoplasty, etc... a seemingly glamorous showbiz life where bits of nostalgia are mangled with modern neuroses to create this montaged hyper-fantasy."

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PRESS ON SSION

" O, slickly sums up the many parts of Critcheloe's career. It not only epitomizes his persona, but contains his best music to date." - PITCHFORK

"The sensibility and sound is at once dance-pop and classic rock, art and trash, all spun around the breathy vocals of Mr. Critcheloe, which can paint him as the lost love child of Prince and the Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant." - NEW YORK TIMES

"SSION Makes Glitzy Pop-And It's Punk as Hell" - GQ

"A SSION video is a force unto itself: fourth walls are spectacularly broken , storytelling is carried by meticulously coded detail , and screen-time blessed with a cast of beguiling characters plucked from the art, music, and fashion scenes that Critcheloe orbits.... It's Critcheloe's singular eye that feels Duchampian to me - and that bears repeating because, while we live in a time of visual literacy, few of his peers are inclined to build worlds that shake up ways of seeing like he does." - THE FADER

"... he's risen to prominence with an approach that's both punk and glam in equal measure." - INTERVIEW

"With spiky synths that rip as hard as Suicide but hooks sugar whipped to Kylie perfection, Critcheloe proudly defies musical categorization, only adding to his intrigue as a true icon of the left field." - DAZED

"Pop project-cum-wildly successful punk experiment, SSION is all that we've been waiting for to revolutionize show business." - PAPER

"When we consider the genius of this album-and it is genius, I don't think I'm being hyperbolic-it's relevant to note that SSION is first and foremost an artist, rather than a straight-up musician....So wherever you sit, O-named after 'optimism', shaped like a hug-will either be an invitation to new kind of party, the kind you've wanted to go to years, or yet another addition to a world you've already got lost in." - NOISEY

WATCH THE SELF-DIRECTED SSION VIDEOS FROM O
"COMEBACK" BELOW

"HEAVEN IS MY THING AGAIN" feat. MNDR, Ian Isaiah and Jametatone below

"AT LEAST THE SKY IS BLUE" ft. Ariel Pink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to9ggdpiSyk

STREAM O
bit.ly/ssionO

November 29, 2018 4:12pm ET by Pressparty  

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