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Recently, there has been a shift with bands removing their albums and songs from streaming platforms. Godspeed You! Black Emperor has just started removing their music from Spotify, Tidal, and Apple Music.<\/p>\n
Recently, other bands, such as King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Xiu Xiu, David Bridie, Leah Senior, and Deerhoof, among others, including the entire Kalahari Oyster Cult record label, have removed their music from the Spotify streaming platform.<\/p>\n
Godspeed You! Black Emperor is described by their record label,<\/strong> Constellation, as:<\/strong><\/p>\n Godspeed You! Black Emperor released a string of albums from 1997-2002 widely recognized as redefining what protest music can be, where longform instrumental chamber rock compositions of immense feeling and power serve as soundtracks to late capitalist alienation and resistance. The band\u2019s first four releases\u2014especially F#A#\u221e (1997) and Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (2000)\u2014are variously regarded as classics of the era and genre. Godspeed\u2019s legendary live performances, featuring multiple 16mm projectors beaming a collage of overlapping analog film loops and reels\u2014along with the distinctive iconography, imagery and tactility of the band\u2019s album artwork and physical LP packages\u2014 further defines the sui generis aesthetic substance, ethos and mythos of this group. GY!BE has issued two official band photos in its 25-year existence (the second, left, a 2010 recreation of the first from 1997) and has done a half-dozen collectively-answered written interviews over that same span. The band has never had a website or social media accounts. It has never made a video. Few rock bands in our 21st century have been as steadfast in trying to let the work speak for itself and maintaining simple rules about minimising participation in cultures of personality, exposure, access, commodification or co-optation.<\/p>\n Following a seven-year hiatus that began in 2003, Godspeed returned to the stage in December 2010 (curating the UK festival All Tomorrow\u2019s Parties) and the band\u2019s post-reunion period has now lasted over a decade, marked by hundreds of sold-out live shows and four additional albums, all of which have been met with high acclaim.<\/p>\n \u201cNO\u2008TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD\u201d \u2013 the band\u2019s fifth post-reunion album (and ninth overall) \u2013 was released on October 04, 2024.<\/p>\nAbout The Author<\/h3>\n