PISS – You Made Me/Skin On Linen
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.”
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.
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
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