Ssion

Next month, the longtime Kansas City DIY-pop experimenter Cody Critcheloe, who records as SSION, will return with O, his first album in seven years. Today,…

Cody Critcheloe is the longtime mastermind between the skewed, idiosyncratic Kansas City DIY pop project SSION. In more recent years, he's also become one of…

For a very long time, SSION mastermind Cody Critcheloe and Ariel Pink have been traveling vaguely parallel paths in the world of DIY underground pop…

In 1962, the little-remembered songwriter Kris Jensen released a gorgeously shimmery pop single called "Big As I Can Dream," about building a live out of…

For years, the Kansas City art-pop project SSION made videos that nobody else on the DIY underground could match. In recent years, the project has…

Lower Dens' most recent LP, Escape From Evil, came out back in 2015, and during its rollout we saw a few excellent videos to accompany…

There's so many moving parts to Robyn's new video for her La Bagatelle Magique project's track "Love Is Free" that I'm not really exactly what's…

Los Angeles is a city like a poisoned apple. Glistening skin and supple, attractive colors cloak the rotting fruit that lurks beneath the surface. I…

Kansas City glam electro-pop band/performance artists SSION (fronted by Cody Critcheloe) made our 5 Best Videos Of The Week list last December for the bizarre…

This is a mournful moment, given the heartbreaking news coming from Connecticut. And while there are far better uses of your time and bandwidth right…

Over the years, KC genre (and gender) experimenter Cody Crichteloe aka SSION has amassed some impressive video directing/producing credits -- for the likes of Santigold…

Kansas City glam freak SSION has been on an incredibly bizarre video tear lately, turning his videos into suburban weirdo operas. The latest, for "Feelz…