Steven Wilson 2013 The Raven That Refused To Sing -flac- -

Why is lossless encoding mandatory for this album? Let’s look at the sonic architecture of three key tracks.

Perhaps the most terrifying song on the album. The FLAC format preserves the eerie clockwork samples and the gut-punching transition from folk to metal. The dynamic contrast—from a whisper to a roar—is impossible to encode properly to MP3 without distortion. Steven Wilson 2013 The Raven That Refused To Sing -FLAC-