Today, noisy, genre-bending band PISS have shared a new track and official video for ‘blocking a scene you can’t remember‘ one of the standout tracks from their forthcoming debut album, you made me / skin on linen, which will be available on 30 October on LP/CD/DSPs worldwide from Sub Pop and in Canada from Paper Bag Records.
‘blocking a scene you can’t remember‘ is a devastating, climactic slow-core song about sexual abuse and its lasting impacts. The lyrics take the form of a monologue read by a girl in her room, rehearsing a long-overdue confrontation with a man from her past. This official video was co-directed by PISS front-person Tay Zantingh & Nushi Sharma.
Following their recent European run, including a performance at End of the Road Festival which drew the largest audience of their career to date and left the crowd visibly moved, PISS will now embark on North American dates with Gilla Band before returning to Europe and the UK in November.
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. Album 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.
PISS Live Dates
October
14 – Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts*
15 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere – The Hall*
17 – Allston, MA – Brighton Music Hall*
20 – Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace*
21 – Detroit, MI – Third Man Records – Cass Corridor*
22 – Chicago, IL – The Bottom Lounge*
24 – Saint Paul, MN – Turf Club*
27- Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater*
28 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court*
30 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios*
31 – Vancouver, BC – The Pearl on Granville*
November
1 – Seattle, WA – Neumos*
5 – Reykjavik, Iceland – Iceland Airwaves
7 – Paris, FR – Pitchfork Paris
8 – Kortrijk, BE – Sonic City
10 – Amsterdam, NE – Paradiso (Small Hall)
11 – Nijmegen, NE – Merleyn
14 – London, UK – Moth Club
* supporting Gilla Band
For more information on PISS please check their instagram and bandcamp.