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Standard MP3s compress the chaotic beauty of this record. The FLAC rip preserves the punishing low-end of the double bass drums, the razor-sharp attack of Jon Brännström’s sampled electronics, and the raw, throaty desperation of Dennis Lyxzén’s vocals. In lossless quality, the quiet/loud dynamics—from the jazz interlude of "Tannhäuser / Derivè" to the explosive chorus of "New Noise"—hit with their intended physical force. Can’t copy the link right now
stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec . Unlike MP3 or AAC, which are "lossy" (they permanently delete frequencies the human ear might not hear), FLAC compresses the audio without losing a single bit of information.