The Weekly Ten
PISS
“blocking a scene you can’t remember” is a slow burn that refuses to look away
Four minutes and forty-nine seconds of held breath.
A slow burn with teeth
Most noise-punk singles come at you swinging. “blocking a scene you can’t remember” does something harder: it holds still. The track unspools as an intense slow burn, its lyrics taking the shape of a monologue — a girl alone in her room, rehearsing a long-overdue confrontation with a man from her past. It’s a song about the lasting weight of harm, and it carries that weight in every bar.
Sub Pop’s newest bruise
The single is track eleven on PISS’s debut album you made me / skin on linen, out October 30 via Sub Pop worldwide and Paper Bag Records in Canada — a fourteen-track statement that already feels like an arrival.
- The structure — A monologue, not a chorus-chasing single. The form is the feeling.
- The restraint — PISS prove they don’t need velocity to be punishing.
- The stakes — This is music about real damage, handled with real care. Nothing here is posture.
The Weekly Ten says
“blocking a scene you can’t remember” is the kind of single that rearranges a band’s ceiling. October 30 can’t come fast enough.
THE WEEKLY TEN RATING: 4.5 / 5
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PISS — “blocking a scene you can’t remember”
THE WEEKLY TEN
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