Sub Pop signing a band called PISS is the most Sub Pop thing that's happened in years, and honestly, we're delighted about it. Vancouver punk outfit PISS have announced their first album for the label, you made me / skin on linen, dropping on 30th October, the day before Halloween, through Sub Pop and Paper Bag Records in Canada. They're announcing it with lead track "time loop at hot slit," a frantic, furious piece of work described as being about growing up surrounded by systemic violence. It's already been an anthem in their local scene for two years before most of us have even heard it. That's the kind of momentum money can't manufacture. ## A Song That Already Belongs To Someone What stands out most here isn't the signing or the album rollout, it's what frontperson Taylor Zantingh said about the track itself. Some of the people Zantingh first shared the song with in its earliest form now get up on stage to sing it at shows. Two years of that before a formal release. Zantingh is clear-eyed about where the song belongs: > "No matter where it ends up, it will always belong to the femmes, queers, and weirdos in the Vancouver underground community." That's not a press release sentiment dressed up as sincerity. That's a band who built something real before a major indie label came calling. The Sub Pop deal doesn't rewrite that history, it just means more people get access to it now. [Vancouver's got form for producing that kind of underground-first energy](/uprise/music/nathan-fielder-negs-noah-kahan-in-vancouver-concert-cameo), even if it usually surfaces in stranger contexts than this. The video for "time loop at hot slit" goes with a karaoke theme, directed by Zantingh and Vivyen Sagsen, which given the song's communal, crowd-singing backstory, makes complete sense. It's not a gimmick, it's the actual story of the track rendered visually. ## The Album Itself The tracklist for you made me / skin on linen is fifteen songs deep and worth reading in full, because the titles do real work. We've got "manon on the trial of gisèle pelicot," "a little girl's horse craze betrays her," and a track literally titled after a 1984 piece from feminist magazine Emma by the group Rote Zora. The closing track is called "i keep trying to change the ending." This isn't an album that's going to sit quietly in the background. Full tracklist: 1. "kai and friends"
2. "i wanted to be a singer"
3. "andrea I"
4. "time loop at hot slit"
5. "manon on the trial of gisèle pelicot"
6. "a little girl's horse craze betrays her"
7. "toni"
8. "there was a door"
9. "andrea II"
10. "how can you act opposite to this emotion?"
11. "blocking a scene you can't remember"
12. "self-blame with thorn necklace and hummingbird"
13. "vikki"
14. "Rote Zora. 'Resistance is Possible.' Emma, no. 6, June 1984, pp. 39-41."
15. "i keep trying to change the ending" For those of us who pay attention to what [new album announcements actually say about a band's intentions](/uprise/music/oso-oso-announce-new-album-an-exchange-of-information-hear), this one says quite a lot. Our take: PISS aren't playing the game, they're arriving with two years of community-built proof that what they make matters to real people. you made me / skin on linen out 30th October. Pay attention.