Michael Kiwanuka and his team of producers (Danger Mouse, Inflo, and Paul Butler) crafted this album with painstaking attention to detail. The expansive soundscapes are filled with layer upon layer of sound: the subtle vibrato of a string section, the ambient decay of a guitar note, the delicate chime of a piano chord, and the raw grain of Kiwanuka’s voice. In a lossy MP3 format, these nuances are blurred, smeared, or lost entirely. To hear Love & Hate in high-resolution FLAC, particularly in 24-bit/96kHz (a common high-res release), is to hear it as the artists intended.
Skip to at 2:45. The sub-bass drop here is infrasonic. On a good pair of wired headphones via FLAC, you will feel the pressure wave. On Spotify or YouTube, that frequency is entirely absent.
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A sultry, slow-burning ballad that features some of the most delicate instrumentation on the record.