“Boychoir” Finds Noise Punk Band Hissing Tiles Dissecting the Toxic Narratives That Erode Our Lives From Inside and Out

HissingTiles1_crop — Hissing Tiles, photo courtesy the artists

“Boychoir” appropriately sounds atonal, troubled and desperate. Post-punk/noise rock band Hissing Tiles spent some time writing the songs for the album of the same name to explore one of the root sources of violence and social tension and that’s the principal of the masculine and how it manifests in negative ways in culture, belief systems and our own psychology whether we identify as masculine or otherwise. The feedback in the song is like the internalized narratives of what it means to be a “real” man and the social inducements to cling to those ideas regardless of the fallout and consequences we may not even see as negative but simply normal when in fact there’s nothing “normal” about mindsets that warp our perception and thinking and allows us to rationalize oppression. And yet isn’t it true that most people want to be pumped up about something and to be cheered on in their endeavors. The song suggests maybe taking a deep look into what we allow ourselves to be excited about and the manner in which we accept encouragement, to dissect our own pedagogy of desire and realize that we can change our will to perpetuate psychic poison. Listen to the lead track to Boychoir on Soundcloud and follow Hissing Tiles at the links below.