Spotify Hoping to Stream Radiohead's New Album "As Soon As We Can"
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A Moon Shaped Pool available on Apple Music and TIDAL
By Evan Minsker
Photo by Samir Hussein/Referns via Getty Images
Today, Radiohead released their new album A Moon Shaped Pool. It's available for digital download and physical pre-order, and it's streaming via Apple Music and TIDAL. It was briefly available to stream and purchase via Google Play over an hour before its scheduled release, but was subsequently removed (and still has not resurfaced on the service). The album is also absent from Spotify, which is notable considering Thom Yorke's disdain for the service. A representative for Spotify shared a statement with Billboard in response to the album's absence from the service. "Radiohead's new singles 'Burn the Witch' and 'Daydreaming' are already available on Spotify, and we look forward to making the rest of A Moon Shaped Pool available on Spotify as soon as we can."
In 2013, Yorke and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich pulled their music from Spotify in protest of the streaming service's business model. "The reason is that new artists get paid fuck all with this model. It's an equation that just doesn't work," Godrich tweeted. "Make no mistake new artists you discover on #Spotify will not get paid. meanwhile shareholders will shortly being rolling in it," Yorke tweeted. In an interview, Yorke called Spotify "the last desperate fart of a dying corpse."
Read "Decoding the Politics in Radiohead's 'Burn the Witch' Video" and "The History of Thom Yorke on Other People's Songs."
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