''Bent'' is the third

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by American musician Cody Critcheloe, under his pseudonym Ssion. It was released on September 18, 2012, by

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Critical reception

''Bent'' was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At

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, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an

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score of 63 based on 4 reviews. In a review for ''

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'', critic reviewer Conrad Tao wrote: "''Bent'', the band’s newest record, is brazenly shallow pop music, aware of and confident in its insubstantiality and general tackiness. ''Bent'' seems like a fashionable record at the moment is curious — the witch house camp's visual sense is closely aligned with Cody Critcheloe's distinctive artwork, and 1980s pop deconstructionism is certainly experiencing a particularly strong renaissance right now." Eric Grandy of ''

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'' said: "It's unfair to judge ''Bent'' as a stand-alone object, as the point or the primary document of the SSION project rather than as merely one prong of many in a multimedia pincer attack."

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