The Free and Sovereign State of Baja California, Mexico, is not especially renowned for an indie-rock scene, to put it mildly—it’s best known on the musical map as the home of Norteño, a hybrid folk music whose practitioners veer towards rock instrumentation and process, though without ever actually becoming rock. And yet, given its two-hour proximity to San Diego, Mexicali has become home to a fair few punk-influenced bands, including the one that concerns us today, Silent.

Populated partly by members of the extremely dark eletro-punk outfit Maniqui Lazer and the superb electronics-and-bass project Letters From Readers, Silent possesses the gothic emotional intensity of Savages spiked with Nick Cave-ish histrionics, while in their more aggressive moments, their jarring changes hearken back to some of the mathy San Diego outfits of the ‘90s. It’s a potent hybrid:
 

 
Silent’s debut LP, A Century of Abuse, was produced Ruben Tamayo, and is set for release in October. An August/September tour with Retox precedes the release, and the video for their song “Self” is released today. It’s DM’s pleasure to serve as the home of the video’s debut. We seriously think you’ll dig the shit out of this band.
 

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