Frank Ocean and his production team (including Malay, Om’Mas Keith, and Pharrell) layered Channel Orange with meticulous detail. Consider:
Brian Eno famously hailed "Pyramids" as "the single greatest song of the last 30 years." That song—a 10-minute opus that shifts from electro-club thump to funereal guitar—relies on extreme sonic contrasts. In a standard 320kbps MP3, the sub-bass of the first half (the "Cleopatra" section) muddies the snare hits. In a FLAC file, the separation is surgical. frankocean2012channelorangeflac hot