: Lott blends woodwinds, strings, and choral arrangements with glitchy, heavy electronic beats. This creates a "mélange of instrumentation" that feels both ancient and futuristic.
Listening in FLAC format is essential for this record. The intricate layering, side-chained vocals, and hidden textures deserve to be heard in full 16-bit or 24-bit resolution. Album Facts: Release Year: 2013 Label: Joyful Noise Recordings Vibe: Intense, cinematic, and virtuosic.
Take the opening track, In a compressed MP3, the opening percussion sounds like a wet cardboard box being hit. In FLAC , you realize that sound is actually a heavily processed sample of a chair scraping a concrete floor, layered with a sub-kick that extends down to 30Hz. The FLAC encoding preserves the transient attack of that hit. You hear the initial thwack of the mallet, the rumble of the room, and the digital decay precisely.