Today, Friday, Oct 30th, PISS has released their long-awaited 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., 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.
Following the previously released singles, “Rote Zora. ‘Resistance is Possible.’ Emma, no. 6, June 1984, pp. 39-41.”, “blocking a scene you can’t remember,” “time loop at hot slit,” the band has shared; the final single, alongside their album release today, titled “i wanted to be a singer.” PISS’ frontperson, Tay Zantingh says: “‘i wanted to be a singer’ is a sludgy, jarring noise-rock song. Using plain language, the singer directly addresses the listener without literary devices or narrative techniques. It is an introduction to the album: this record is not entertainment but a necessity born from the impossibility of writing truth without addressing this trauma. It contrasts childhood dreams of performing with a painful reality, and forces listeners to confront that reality before they engage with the record.”
The album release comes as the band’s North American tour with Gilla Band comes to a close, featuring electrifying performances at Second Summer Festival and a SOLD OUT show with Gilla Band at Lee’s Palace in Toronto. They perform in Portland tonight, with shows in Vancouver tomorrow night at The Pearl, concluding this run with Gilla Band on Sunday, November 01 in Seattle, WA. An upcoming international run includes Iceland Airwaves, Pitchfork Paris, and a SOLD OUT London show at Moth Club. The band will return to play London’s Scala in February and recently confirmed Primavera and Best Kept Secret in the summer of 2027.
PISS live dates:
Fri. Oct. 30 - Portland, OR, USA - Mississippi Studios *
Sat. Oct. 31- Vancouver, BC, Canada - The Pearl on Granville *
Sun. Nov. 01 - Seattle, WA, USA - Neumos *
Thu. Nov. 05 - Reykjavik, IS - Iceland Airwaves
Sat. Nov. 07 - Paris, FR - Pitchfork Paris
Sun. Nov. 08 - Kortrijk, BE - Sonic City
Tue. Nov. 10 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso (Small Hall)
Wed. Nov. 11 - Nijmegen, NL - Merleyn
Thu. Nov. 14 - London, UK - Moth Club *SOLD OUT*
Wed. Feb. 24 - London, UK - Scala
Fri. Jun. 04 - Barcelona, ES - Primavera Sound
Fri. Jun. 11 - Porto, Primavera Sound
Sun. Jun. 13 - Hilvarenbeek, NL - Best Kept Secret
* supporting Gilla Band
PISS recently played an indelible set at KEXP, performing 11 songs in sequential order from their forthcoming debut full-length. The session was hosted by Sonic Reducers’ Brian Foss; you can watch HERE. In other exciting news, PISS has graced the covers of EXCLAIM in Canada (read HERE), NME in the UK (read HERE), and yesterday’s “Band To Watch” feature on STEREOGUM (read HERE.)
PISS is Taylor Zantingh (vocals), Tyler Paterson (guitar), Gavin Moya (bass), and Garreth Roberts (drums). 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 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 recorded ’you made me / skin on linen’ in January 2025 with Colin Stewart at Hive Creative Labs. It is now available from Sub Pop and Bandcamp. LP orders from megamart.subpop.com in North America, Mega Mart Europe in the UK/EU, and your local record store will receive the album on Baby Pink vinyl, with a Baby Pink/Grey Blend available exclusively on the band’s Bandcamp page and at the band’s live show, while supplies last.
What people are saying about PISS you made me/skin on linen:
“Its so visceral, its so powerful…its jarring, its uncomfortable in many ways… it also feels really, really important.” “New Music Friday,” NPR Music
“Raw, refined and radical, you made me / skin on linen is a complex and challenging record, and one that shouldn’t be taken for granted. Art like this doesn’t come often, or without cost.” 9/10, EXCLAIM!
“Bathed in the intimacy of unrelenting emotion, PISS cuts to the bone with a blade of bass-laden dissonance and driving, hard-hitting rhythms. 10/10, The Line of Best Fit
“The most uncompromising art possible.” The Wire
“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” (End of the Road live review) MOJO
“Their performance is moving, terrifying and haunting.” - (End of the Road live review) So Young
“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
“Piss are about to become *the* band everyone is talking about for the year to come.” 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 |
