Album Review: Ssion’s O Is An Avant-Garde Music Experiment

Ssion’s O is pure experimentation at its finest. Blending punk, pop, and glam, O feels like a sex pistol filled with glitter; to shoot its tracks is to be mystified and colorized by music that makes you want be the belle of any drag ball.

As I heard songs such as, “1980-99 (ft. Sky Ferreira & Patty Schemel)”, “Comeback”, and “Free Lunch (ft. Devendra Banhart)”, I kept on thinking of vogue battles at House of Yes; bodies morphing gracefully into art. It is a perfect image considering Ssion treats a song like a body; molding and flowing its soundscapes with curves and features that give it an unforgettable presence. In tracks like, “Let Me Down Like U (ft. MNDR)”, “Heaven Is My Thing Again (ft. Ian Isiah & MNDR & JAM)”, and “Big As I Can Dream”, he swishes his voice from tenor-seduction to alto-command.

Ssion is an intriguing vocalist because he considers his voice an added instrument, and he has the range to lower it like a baseline or heighten it like a synth-wave. This capacity amps O’s avant-garde nature; transforming it from album into artwork. This is both a surprising and unsurprising after-effect because Ssion is known for his fun, even wacky music style. Yet, O feels if he has taken his boisterous, eclectic aesthetic widen it into mainstream rather than its underground following.

Whether the ominous, “The Cruel Twirl Starring Róisín Murphy”, or cosmically grooved, “Tell Me About It”, Ssion’s O is an album that will take you everywhere in frequency and feeling. Thus, or those seeking to be fascinated by their music as much as entertained, this is the album for you. For More Information On Ssion’s O Click Here.