Downtown Boys have been gone for nine years, and “No Me Jodas” makes clear they were not sitting around getting soft.

The first single from “Public Luxury,” their upcoming Sub Pop record due June 26, arrives like a freight train wrapped in a mariachi costume. That is not a metaphor. The accompanying video, directed by John MacKay, actually features the Mariachi Internacional Tapatio de Alvaro Paulino, and the collision of brass band pageantry with the band’s signature punk fury is exactly as unhinged as it sounds.

The song itself operates in the register Downtown Boys have always owned: big riffs, bigger politics, Victoria Marie’s voice cutting through the noise like she has something urgent to say and exactly one minute to say it. “No Me Jodas” translates roughly to “don’t screw with me,” which is a reasonable opening statement for a band returning after a decade of silence.

What is striking is how little they have softened. The last record, 2017’s “Cost of Living,” was already one of the more politically charged rock albums of that decade, written during a moment of particular American dread. Coming back now, with the world in arguably worse shape, the band seems to have decided that the correct response is to get louder.

The chicha aesthetic that Marie describes in interviews, drawn from Peruvian music culture, gives the track a warmth the band has not always let itself have. There is something in the interplay between the mariachi brass and the distortion that makes the whole thing feel festive and furious at the same time: a party that is also a protest, a song that wants you to dance and to be angry about something specific while you do it.

Marie frames it through Chacalón’s ethic: chamba y vacilón, hard work and partying. That combination is not as contradictory as it sounds. Downtown Boys have always understood that political music does not have to be grim to be serious. You can make a song that is genuinely fun to be in the room with and still mean every word of it.

Nine years is a long time. “No Me Jodas” does not sound like a band that spent it overthinking things. It sounds like a band that spent it building pressure. June cannot come soon enough.