Godspeed You! Black Emperor have pulled their music from a number of streaming services.
Almost the entirety of the band’s discography has been removed from Spotify, Tidal and Amazon Music. Their two albums for Kranky – 1998’s F# A# ∞ and 2000’s Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven – are still up on Apple Music, but a representative for the label has told Pitchfork that they are in the process of being taken down.
“Kranky has always granted artists control over how their music is presented and disseminated,” a representative for Kranky said of the band’s decision to remove their music from streaming services.
Fans of the post-rock band can still purchase and stream their music via their Bandcamp page.
Their removal of their music from major streaming services follows decisions by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Xiu Xiu and Deerhoof to remove their music from Spotify specifically in protest of chief executive Daniel Ek’s investments into military technology.
