Seven Shifts by Marx My Words

# SEVEN SHIFTS

This album isn't just music—it's a revolutionary transmission from a world that could have been.

We created "Seven Shifts" to document seven days that shook America in our alternate timeline—where the red star rose over industrial cities and worker collectives seized the means of production. Each track follows a different faction during one week of socialist revolution in a major US city, from the first spark to the bittersweet aftermath.

The music moves like the revolution itself. We start with hopeful jazz-inflected hip-hop on "Red Star Rises," building tension through "Factory Floor Anthem" as workers mobilize. By the time you hit "Steel Against Steel" and "Molotov Lullaby," the beats get heavier, the samples more distorted—you can practically smell the tear gas and hear the street battles.

We dug deep into our collective record crates, sampling forgotten Soviet jazz recordings, dusty vinyl protest songs, and revolutionary speeches. The crackle of old recordings is intentional—like transmissions from a parallel history bleeding through.

When we recorded "Banner on High," we brought in a local brass section who usually play labor union rallies. That triumphant horn break? Recorded at 3 AM after hours of debate about how victory should actually sound.

The final tracks reflect on what comes after revolution—the hard work of building something new from the ruins of capitalism. "New Ground Bloom" and "Ours to Build" aren't just empty slogans, they're the questions we're asking ourselves: what kind of world would we actually create?

This is music for the struggle, comrades. For the picket line and the people's assembly. For those who dream of something beyond the profit motive.

The past wasn't written in stone. Neither is the future.

Solidarity forever.

Marx My Words is a narrative hip hop group set in an alternate history where the Soviet Revolution took root in the United States, sparking a socialist movement against capitalism.