PISS don’t do subtle — and they’re not about to start now. The Vancouver quartet have confirmed their debut album, You Made Me / Skin on Linen, lands on 30 October via Sub Pop, following two years of turning heads with a live show that’s as confronting as it is carefully constructed.

Fronted by singer Taylor Zantingh, the band’s music centres on her experiences with sexual violence, delivered through a punishing blend of hardcore, poetry, sound collage and performance art. Their set has been played the same way, night after night, for the last two years — designed to make gender-based violence feel like lived experience, not spectacle.

At Eindhoven’s Hit the City festival in late August, PISS opened with a trigger warning before drummer Garreth Roberts, bassist Gavin Moya and guitarist Tyler Paterson tore into blasts of noise-punk, split by audio samples including children laughing and feminist writer Andrea Dworkin speaking about pornography. Onstage, Zantingh moved between physical intensity and a nervous stillness, her voice snapping from quiet spoken-word to a full-throat shriek.

Despite the buzz, the band have released very little so far: a four-track Bandcamp demo, a handful of professionally recorded sets, radio appearances on YouTube and some viral fan-shot clips. Since forming in 2024, it’s the shows — not a stacked discography — that have built the cult following.

The album was recorded over a handful of days in winter 2024, and Paterson says the goal was to mirror the live experience as closely as possible. You can hear Zantingh gasping for breath and struggling to get words out, alongside stark imagery in the lyrics. The band also subtitle lyrics and samples in their videos for accessibility, treating the sampled voices as a kind of reading list.

PISS are booked for Brighton Psych on 4 September, End of the Road on 6 September, then tour North America and Europe — though Zantingh has been frank about not knowing how long she can physically and emotionally keep doing a project “built on my suffering.”