After months of developing a striking live presence and releasing a collection of demos on Bandcamp titled three demos in 2024, PISS will be releasing their first full collection of songs, combining punk, poetry, sound collage, performance art, and visual art that shifts between personal and political.
Lead single "time loop at hot slit" is a noise-punk track which explores of girlhood in a culture of sexualisation. The video was co-directed by vocalist Taylor Zantingh and Vivyen Sagsen at the now-closed DIY space Take Yr Time Back in Vancouver. "Some of the people with whom I shared the earliest version of this song take the stage to sing it themselves," Zantingh says. "No matter where it ends up, it will always belong to the femmes, queers, and weirdos in the Vancouver underground community."
The songs on the album chronicle a childhood affected by structural, systemic and intimate violence, with the band using art to examine how we carry the effects of this violence, considering how violence affects development and how wounds are carried over time.
PISS are also partnering with autonomous spaces and radical community hubs around North America to distribute free copies of the album. Customers can purchase an additional, discounted copy to be donated to one of these spaces.
"The purpose of this project is to increase the accessibility of physical copies of the record, but I also hope it will encourage anyone who enjoys our music to connect with other radicals in their communities!," the band say. "It is more important than ever to lean into offline, autonomous social spaces. We cannot build a real movement by communicating with tools built and controlled by the powers we aim to challenge!!!"
you made me / skin on linen artwork
you made me / skin on linen tracklist
"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"