This week’s featured music drop for our month-long Mexican Revolutionary Mural programming on WRITE BRAIN TV is a wild and daring new trio that puts the modern punk sound in their crosshairs and fires an acid-soaked ballistic at it.

A volatile clash of psyched-out vintage garage rock, early-70’s proto-Metal, and late-70’s classic-era punk, PAI PAI’s debut EP La China is a head-tripped trance beamed into your skull from Puerto Escondido, México. Performing with a staggering level of sweat-drippin’ machismo and whizz-sniffin’ energy, Juan Pablo Donoso (bass / synths), José Antonio Guisa (guitar / synths / vox), and Alonso Izquierdo (drums / vox) deliver a pummeling array of guitar-slashing clangor, pulverizing drums, and occasional Mysterian-esque synth runs, all undergirded by alternatingly intricately fleet-fingered and trudging bass thumps.

The group formed in Argentina during the Pharmo-paranoid pandemic days, but quickly moved their operation to Mexico, where they released this album under their own digital label llama en llamas, which produces and promotes punk, garage, experimental, improvised, and electronic music. Catch their raucous brand of punk and psychedelia touring Mexico City and beyond; whether they are wreaking havoc at midnight skatepark light shows, popping-up at the local barbecue or house party, riffing in graffiti-splattered alleyways, or on stage at festivals like Electric Farm in California and We Are Loud in Puerto Escondido, you are guaranteed to be electrified and beguiled by Mexico’s best new live act.