Björk Keeping Vulnicura Off Spotify: “It’s About Respect, You Know?”

Björk‘s latest album Vulnicura is currently not on Spotify. In a conversation with Fast Company, she said the “streaming thing just does not feel right. I don’t know why, but it just seems insane.” 

She further detailed why:

To work on something for two or three years and then just, Oh, here it is for free. It’s not about the money; it’s about respect, you know? Respect for the craft and the amount of work you put into it. But maybe Netflix is a good model. You go first to the cinema and after a while it will come on ­Netflix. Maybe that’s the way to go with streaming. It’s first physical and then maybe you can stream it later.

The forthcoming video for Vulnicura‘s “Stonemilker” will be viewable in Oculus Rift, the virtual reality headset. Elsewhere in the interview, Björk was asked if she’d consider releasing an album on Oculus Rift. (Previously, 2011′s Biophilia was released as an app.) 

Her answer was ambivalent. “You can do apps cheaply,” she said. “Apps was kind of punk, actually. It was like starting a punk band again. Filming for Oculus Rift is not.”

Also, the Haxan Cloak has contributed sound design to the “Black Lake” component of her forthcoming MoMA retrospective, which opens on March 7.

Read the entire interview here. 

Read our recent conversation with Björk, The Invisible Woman.

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