Chernobyl My Love

by Aleutian Drift

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Over a sonic barrage of steel and sweat, “Chernobyl My Love” is written from the perspective of the wildlife that has remained and thrived in the city of Pripyat, Russia following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. The Soviets drew a lot from Greek mythology in constructing symbols of unity as well as strength toward their national projects. For the Chernobyl project, this included Hercules, who gets a shot-out in the song. Other notables mentioned include Vladimir Lenin, the famed Soviet physicist Igor Kurchatov, and the (defamed) House of Romanov.

Chernobyl My Love is the fourth and final single to be release ahead of the full-length album, The Citadel.

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Prometheus builds a golden land
Where Stalingrad now Atomgrad
A broken mule for a GAZ Chaika!
A tangled hut for fine Pripyat!
Oh Pripyat!
On Pripyat!
Oh Pripyat!

Plethoretic to energetik
Devotees to great Hercules
and drop Romanov for Kurchatov
and drop Romanov for Kurchatov!
Oh Pripyat!
On Pripyat!
Oh Pripyat!

Chernobyl my love
For thirty years /it’s been our home, our simple life / in the radon
Chernobyl my love
We nestle in / the shadows of
a stone Lenin / then Gorbachev

Then you danced too close to Helios
There spewed a fire from his great ire 30 gone and 4,000 burned
30 gone and 4,000 burned!

Carnivores and herbivores like barosaurs and stegosaurs
Our geodyn with no hominine
A paradise for your sacrifice!
Of Pripyat!
On Pripyat!
Oh Pripyat!

Chernobyl my love
For thirty years /it’s been our home our simple life / in the radon
Chernobyl my love
We nestle in / the shadows of
a stone Lenin / then Gorbachev a stone Lenin / then Gorbachev

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released March 29, 2024
Recorded at Drum Farm Studio - Menomonie, WI
Produced by Aleutian Drift
Engineered by Steve Norwick
Mixed by John Richardson
Mastered by Jackson Dols
Released by Farm to Label Records
Release Date: 03/2024

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Aleutian Drift Madison, Wisconsin

Aleutian Drift is a four-piece built on the foundations of late 70s to mid-eighties era punk, and expressed through post- punk sonic washes and melodic song arcs. Drawing influence from such seminal acts as Joy Division, Bauhaus, and Sonic Youth, as well as Radiohead and Interpol, AD finds its place in resonance as revolution, dissonance as dissidence, and seismic pulse as subaltern power. ... more

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