Godspeed You! Black Emperor are the most recent indie-rockers to tug their music from Spotify. Nevertheless, the Canadian post-rock band have gone one step additional and eliminated almost their complete discography from all main streaming companies. Pitchfork has reached out to the band’s label, Constellation Records, for remark.
Presently, no Godspeed You! Black Emperor information can be found to stream on Spotify or Tidal. The band’s two albums for Kranky—1998’s F# A# ∞ and 2000’s Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven—are nonetheless up on Apple Music, however a consultant for the label confirmed to Pitchfork that they’re within the strategy of being taken down. “Kranky has at all times granted artists management over how their music is offered and disseminated,” they shared in a press release. Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s catalog can nonetheless be bought and streamed by way of Bandcamp.
Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have all left Spotify within the final two months. All three teams cited the army investments made by Spotify CEO Daniel Ek by way of his funding fund Prima Materia. Since 2021, Prima Materia has been investing in Helsing, a protection firm that sells software program that makes use of synthetic intelligence (AI) to tell army choices.
Final 12 months, Godspeed You! Black Emperor shared the album “No Title As of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead”, named for what was, on the time, the Palestinian loss of life toll of Israel’s war in Gaza as reported by Gaza’s Well being Ministry.
Examine “No Title As of 13 February 2024 28,340 Lifeless” at No. 27 on “The 50 Best Albums of 2024.”
