PISS is Taylor Zantingh (vocals), Tyler Paterson (guitar), Gavin Moya (bass), and Garreth Roberts (drums). The band recorded their debut album, you made me / skin on linen, in January 2025 with Colin Stewart at Hive Creative Labs. The album is forthcoming on October 30, 2026, via Paper Bag Records (Canada) and Sub Pop Records (worldwide).
The Vancouver, B.C., four-piece combines punk, poetry, sound collage, performance art, and visual art, creating a multidisciplinary body of work that blurs the line between the personal and the 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.
What people are saying about PISS:
“time loop at hot slit,” a frantic outburst about growing up amidst systemic violence that reportedly has emerged as an anthem within the band’s local scene.” [“time loop at hot slit”]. Stereogum
“A blistering hurricane of hardcore-meets-artcore that genuinely defies categorisation.” Shindig!
“Their shows are finely choreographed, emotionally intense and deeply immersive… The effect is jarring, unsettling and profoundly moving.” The Guardian
“Piss will not be forgotten by anyone who saw them” MOJO (End of the Road review)
“Their performance is moving, terrifying and haunting.” So Young (EOTR review)
“Devastatingly powerful hardcore punk, complete with performance art flourishes and crushing narrative poetics… PISS are fated to become leaders of the contemporary hardcore punk movement, returning it to its fierce roots of political candor and forthright rage.” DIY
“One of punk’s most talked about new bands.. It’s hard to think of another vocalist who gives so much of themselves onstage as Tay Zantingh.” Dork
PISS
you made me / skin on linen
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 |
