On October 30, noisy, genre-bending four-piece PISS will release their debut album, you made me / skin on linen, on LP/CD/CS/DSPs worldwide from Sub Pop and in Canada from Paper Bag Records. The Vancouver, B.C. band combines punk, poetry, sound collage, performance art, and visual art, creating a multidisciplinary body of work that blurs the line between personal and political. The announcement comes ahead of UK shows this week, including a date in Margate and shows at Brighton Psych Fest and End of The Road Festival. More UK and European live dates have also been announced today, with a new London headline show confirmed for November 14th.
you made me / skin on linen, depicts a childhood shaped by structural, systemic, and intimate violence. Throughout the record, art-making motifs serve as metaphors for the myriad ways we carry the effects of this violence: each experience leaves an impression, gradually creating or deforming the self, much like a piece of clay moulded by every mark it receives. The record resists simple conclusions; rather than offering a single perspective, it examines violence as a ubiquitous facet of our culture. It asks questions—how does violence impact our development? Are our wounds inextricable parts of us? And if not, then where do our wounds end and we begin?—and allows the listener to devise their own answers.
The band has shared their first offering from the album, ‘time loop at hot slit,’ a frenetic noise-punk examination of girlhood in a culture of sexualization. The song pairs a danceable chorus with witty, poetic lyrics wailed in anguish and uncanny eroticism. This official video was co-directed by PISS front-person Taylor Zantingh and Vivyen Sagsen. Filmed at the now-closed-down DIY space, Take Yr Time Back in Vancouver, BC, Zantingh shares: “Some of the people with whom I shared the earliest version of “time loop at hot slit” take the stage to sing it themselves. Our local scene has been singing this song with us for two years!! It’s very exciting to finally share it with the world, but no matter where it ends up, it will always belong to the femmes, queers, and weirdos in the Vancouver underground community <3”.
you made me / skin on linen:
- kai and friends
- i wanted to be a singer
- andrea I
- time loop at hot slit
- manon on the trial of gisèle pelicot
- a little girl’s horse craze betrays her
- toni
- there was a door
- andrea II
- how can you act opposite to this emotion?
- blocking a scene you can’t remember
- self-blame with thorn necklace and hummingbird
- vikki
- Rote Zora. “Resistance is Possible.” Emma, no. 6, June 1984, pp. 39-41.
- i keep trying to change the ending
