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May 04, 2005
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Ssion - Call Out the Lions
Ssion (phonetically, 'Shun') is wild, spooky, visceral. Cody Critcheloe directs this circus, a swirling mass of dirty cotton candy, sweaty costumes, and bruised bodies. A word of caution: the beats in this song are so unbelievably hard. If that two-beat bass-anchored pulse (you'll hear what I'm talking about) was transmitted in Morse code via telegraph, it would look (cartoonishly) like two baseball-sized lumps travelling in close proximity down the length of the wires, startling birds and distending metal couplings. The mission statement for 'Call Out the Lions' is announced right at the start, when Critcheloe sings, "Don't stand in your corner/waiting for your chance/make your own music/start your own dance". Perhaps the five-star moment of this track is the little breakdown towards the end when the band rides cymbal taps, dripped piano notes, and that high voltage bass through a repeated and audacious refrain of "Call Out the Lions!", into a whirlwind of screams and gasping.
Ssion's website seems to be out of commission right now, but you can order the LP this song comes from, "Opportunity Bless My Soul", from the fine people at Version City Records, right here.
P.S. You can finally (I know so many of you were totally waiting with bated breath for this too (yeah, right)) search the site directly for whatever the heck you might want to look for, e.g. how many times have I used the phrase "ruthlessly cool", etc.
Posted by Kevin at May 4, 2005 08:20 AM
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