ATLAS SHARTED PRESS RELEASE

Actively Courting Artistic Persecution, Soviet Fourth Grader Release ATLAS SHARTED, Albumized Summary of Trump’s 4-Year Campaign of Spiritual Sodomy

Missoula, MT, Release: November 1, 2020. For Immediate Release

Fans of experimental punk music, rejoice, as Soviet Fourth Grader’s freshman LP, ATLAS SHARTED, arrives on XXXX. The album will be released despite pending litigation.

In addition to the album launch, the band have compiled making-of videos, photos, and documents for fans, which can be viewed at atlasharted.com. In lieu of a tour, the band plans to release music videos to support the album over the winter.

Atlas Sharted is 12 tracks inspired by the aftermath of the 2016 election, replete with pro-science and animal rights imagery and the protest anthem “The Body Politic” which features a driving electric tuba.

Soviet Fourth Grader wrote much of the album during an ill-fated tour through Armenia, Georgia, Crimea, and Turkey. The album was recorded at Tuna Loon Studios in Missoula, Montana with sound engineer Josef Metesh. The band also announced that the COVID-19 Crisis has inspired them to begin work on a new concept album about inverted totalitarianism and the struggle for solidarity, tentatively titled Comrade Dolphin.

Since the band’s initial EP release, Chernobyl Intentions, the focus of the music hasn’t changed, but their creative process and technical skills have matured, and they’ve also been able compose and record with the same set of instruments (previous recordings made use of instruments purchased and returned). “We are happy to have such a CD as this, a progress for our art and our family. We come to America and are very disappoint by many things, but we make a CD of it,” said lead singer Anatoli Stanislav. “Music is not career material, but we will always make music of importance to us.”

The band experiments with different styles, including surf rock, poetic endings, and nu metal, all threaded through by themes of frustration at the complacent American electorate’s inability to organize against its corrupt ruling class. “Original plan, we imagine a rock opera set in Ayn Rand High School for the Producing Arts, where teenage misfit is sentenced detention for selfless act and then self-discover his need for political and economic alternative, but production cost was way out of budget. So several the ideas—TV corruption, the legacy of Crotchrot Reagan, home economics, science illiteracy—we re-arrange the song and it all make a solid body,” lyricist and bassist Konstantinos Stanislav said. “We are so furious of America, but also this is a record of hope. There is vision for the future, and it require toilet paper.”

The band is currently self-managed and the release hopes to capitalize on fan enthusiasm for rough ideas with high production value. “One thing I have to say about them,” said Josef Metesh, the album’s engineer, “is that I have no clue what they’re trying to say about 2⁄3 of the time, but they have a really high quality to their craft.”

The band members are all cousins—Anatoli and Konstantinos are the driving force behind the record, but contributing music are Beauregard and Losik Stanislav, with additional vocals also from Stuslan and “John-Boy” Stanislav. Like so many before them, the Stanislavs left the old country in hopes of finding the American Dream, but their timing couldn’t have been worse, arriving as they did during the first days of the 2008 financial collapse. Since then, they’ve worked as package handlers, mill workers, coffee attendants, and briefly as Roy Orbison impersonators for Classic Rock n’ Roll Birthdays, Inc. Along the way, they’ve discovered a way to turn exasperation into music, with a humorous twist. “Is the meaning behind our logo,” explains Konstantinos. “We are shake our fist at injustice and stupidity, yes? But also we must keep our sense of humor, and that is why we hold rubber the chicken.” In a time when it’s easy to despair, Soviet Fourth Grader offer an alternative: rage and humor in equal measure, set to music.

Labor unions, non-profits, and social malcontents interested in partnership or media opportunities can learn more on the band’s website, sovietfourthgrader.com.

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Soviet Fourth Grader
Stanislavia Technical Institute Recordings