King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have adopted the lead of Deerhoof and Xiu Xiu by pulling their music off of Spotify. In an announcement posted to Instagram on Friday afternoon, the Australian psych rock band wrote, “A PSA to these unaware: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek invests thousands and thousands in AI army drone expertise.”
“We simply eliminated our music from the platform. Can we put stress on these Dr. Evil tech bros to do higher? Be part of us on one other platform.”
As of publication, just about all of King Gizzard’s discography is not out there on Spotify. The lone exception is Satanic Slumber Get together, a 2022 collaborative EP with Tropical Fuck Storm, which was launched by means of Joyful Noise Recordings. In an announcement to Pitchfork, Joyful Noise mentioned it might take down the EP if requested by each acts.
Ek presently serves as chairman of Helsing, a German firm specializing in AI army software program. Final month, he helped lead a brand new funding spherical for the corporate totaling practically $700 million.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are the most recent band to tug their music from Spotify in protest of CEO Daniel Ek’s involvement with the AI weapons firm Helsing. They observe acts like Deerhoof and Xiu Xiu, who additionally not too long ago eliminated their catalogs from the platform for a similar motive.