On October 30th, noisy, genre-bending four-piece PISS will release their debut effort, you made me / skin on linen, on LP/CD/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.
 
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 molded 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.
 
Today, the band has shared their debut offering, “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 frontperson 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”. Click HERE to watch.
 
PISS will embark on an international headline and festival tour beginning on September 3rd in Margate, UK, at Where Else?, running through November 14th in London, UK, at the Moth Club. Highlights for this announcement include a 12-date run as direct support for Dublin post-punk group Gilla Band, with additional performances on September 6th in Salisbury, UK, at End of the Road Festival, September 25th in Toronto, ON at Second Summer Festival, and Thursday, November 5th, in Reykjavik, IS at Iceland Airwaves. See below for a full list of dates.
 

Thu. Sep. 03 - Margate, UK - Where Else?
Fri. Sep. 04 - Brighton, UK - Brighton Psych Fest
Sun. Sep. 06 - Salisbury, UK - End of the Road Festival
Fri. Sep. 25 - Toronto, ON - Second Summer Festival
Sat. Sep. 26 - Kitchener, ON - Wrecker Fest
Wed. Oct. 14 - Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts*
Thu. Oct. 15 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere - The Hall*
Sat. Oct. 17 - Allston, MA - Brighton Music Hall*
Tue. Oct. 20 - Toronto, ON - Lee’s Palace*
Wed. Oct. 21 - Detroit, MI - Third Man Records - Cass Corridor*
Thu. Oct. 22 - Chicago, IL - The Bottom Lounge*
Sat. Oct. 24 - Saint Paul, MN - Turf Club*
Tue. Oct. 27- Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater*
Wed. Oct. 28 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court*
Fri. Oct. 30 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios*
Sat. Oct. 31 - Vancouver, BC - The Pearl on Granville*
Sun. Nov. 01 - Seattle, WA - Neumos*
Thu. Nov. 05 - Reykjavik, Iceland - Iceland Airwaves
Sat. Nov. 07 - Paris, FR - Pitchfork Paris
Sun. Nov. 08 - Kortrijk, BE - Sonic City
Tue. Nov. 10 - Amsterdam, NE - Paradiso (Small Hall)
Wed. Nov. 11 - Nijmegen, NE - Merleyn
Sat. Nov. 14 - London, UK - Moth Club
 
* supporting Gilla Band

 

 
Read more about PISS at Sub Pop.

What people are saying about PISS:
“If you want a Dork guarantee, Piss are about to become *the* band everyone is talking about for the year to come.” - DORK
“PISS are fated to become leaders of the contemporary hardcore punk movement, returning it to it’s fierce roots of political candor and forthright rage.” - DIY Mag

 “Bathed in the intimacy of unrelenting emotion, PISS cuts to the bone with a blade of bass-laden dissonance and driving, hard-hitting rhythms. - Line of Best Fit

 “The world around us is a main character here, though, as I think what impacts me about PISS is that while Zantingh deals so vividly with the intense impact of sexual violence, she also refuses victim rhetoric, considering instead how no one should have to stomach it – they should be able to rage back.” 
 - Far Out

 “For now, PISS’s recorded output consists of those three tracks on Bandcamp. All of them sound like a car bomb going off in a sheet metal factory, the vocals screamed and road-rash raw, the guitars feedback-drenched and distortion-jacked, the drums and bass bombastically concussive. If you like music filed under “extreme and uncompromising”, PISS is very likely your new favourite band.”
 - The Georgia Straight

 “What PISS delivered wasn’t a set at all: it was a penance, an exorcism, a resistance.” -  Exclaim!

 “Tense, daunting and bursting with righteous anger, PISS seemed like a pack of open nerves, ready to engulf the entire room. There were people crying in the audience, as lead singer Taylor Zantingh spoke, screamed and scorched through the ugliest crevices of sustained cruelty, inter-gender violence and predatory behaviour.” - Range Magazine

 “A palpable atmospheric shift occurs when the band strikes its first note. Before PISS finish their opening song, the audience is no longer focused on their drink orders at the bar; background conversations screech to a halt as PISS screech in cathartic fury.”  - Northern Transmissions

 “Merciless drums rattle skulls. Screeching guitar riffs stab and bite. At other times, agonising tension builds as patient chords pull you into the narrative and spit you back out again. All the while, Taylor Zantingh’s gut-wrenching vocals conjure feelings of fury and sadness. You will struggle to find a more intense band anywhere.” - Stereoboard

 “I was not prepared for PISS. This set from the newer Vancouver post-hardcore punk quartet should come with a trigger warning. The brutal passion and unruly rage are palpable as lead singer Taylor Zantingh runs around the stage, taking the role of a woman who has dealt with sexual trauma and coercion, usually from older men.” - Cult Mtl

 “Their sets feel less like shows and more like controlled detonations—tense, cathartic, and emotionally blistering. ‘A pack of open nerves’ is how RANGE described them after a Sled Island set that had people crying in the crowd. When they played with Lambrini Girls, Exclaim! called out their ability to completely shift the atmosphere from note one. It’s art. It’s punk. It’s chaos, turned surgical.” -
 Culture Addict

Tracklisting:
1. kai and friends
2. i wanted to be a singer
3. andrea I
4. time loop at hot slit
5. manon on the trial of gisèle pelicot
6. a little girl’s horse craze betrays her
7. toni
8. there was a door
9. andrea II
10. how can you act opposite to this emotion?
11. blocking a scene you can’t remember
12. self-blame with thorn necklace and hummingbird
13. vikki
14. Rote Zora. “Resistance is Possible.” Emma, no. 6, June 1984, pp. 39-41.
15. i keep trying to change the ending