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PISS – ‘you made me / skin on linen’ album review: Noise rock has never been more essential
Vancouver noise rock band PISS use their debut album, *you made me / skin on linen*, to confront misogyny, sexual violence and trauma through abrasive music and vocalist Taylor Zantingh’s personal account. The review argues that its discomfort is deliberate: the record makes these realities difficult to dismiss and gives them a stark, forceful musical setting.
Across its half-hour runtime, the songs trace a loose narrative from childhood innocence through adolescent misogyny and traumatic experiences towards Zantingh’s attempt to reclaim a sense of safety. Interview excerpts and readings from feminist writers and scholars add social context, while fractured lyrics and unsettling imagery convey the effects of trauma. The closing song offers a brief, softly sung moment of reassurance, though the review stresses that it cannot undo the harm described.
In short
- PISS’s debut confronts misogyny and trauma through abrasive noise rock.
- Taylor Zantingh’s personal account anchors the album’s loose narrative.
- Its closing mantra offers a brief moment of reassurance.
Explained simply
Noise rock is a style of rock that uses distortion, feedback and unconventional sounds to create an abrasive effect. Vancouver band PISS draw on that sound for their debut album, which deals with misogyny, sexual violence and trauma through vocalist Taylor Zantingh’s personal account.
The songs move loosely from childhood into adolescence and adulthood, alongside excerpts from interviews and feminist writers and scholars. This places individual experiences in a wider social context. The album matters because it uses deliberately unsettling music to present subjects that can be difficult to confront, while its closing moment of reassurance offers no simple resolution.