Said Jonathan Prince, head of policy at Spotify: Radiohead’s management company, Courtyard, and its label, XL Recordings, were working on a deal with Spotify to have the album be the first on the platform only available to premium subscribers, according to Music Ally. Spotify actually revealed that it was in talks with the band to have their new album available on its release date, alongside competitors Apple Music and Tidal. Fans could pay what they wanted to download it. The absence of In Rainbows until now had to do with the fact that Radiohead self-released the album to fans on digital only, and exclusively on their website. Despite Yorke being previously adamant in his refusal to have Radiohead, Atoms for Peace or his solo work available on the streaming platform, all of Radiohead’s catalog can now be found there, save for A Moon Shaped Pool. The most recent happenings between the alternative-rock band and the juggernaut music platform are that Radiohead’s 2007 album In Rainbows is now streaming, and their latest release, A Moon Shaped Pool, will hit Spotify on June 17.Īpparently, frontman Thom Yorke’s stance on streaming has evolved since he likened Spotify to the “last desperate fart of a dying corpse” (is Spotify the corpse or the fart in that metaphor?). It’s no secret that Radiohead has had a complicated relationship with Spotify.
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