Odell’s voice is full of air and fragility—what engineers call "high-frequency information." In the bonus track "The Sparrow," he breathes in before the first line. In a 128kbps MP3, that breath is white noise. In a 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC (CD quality), you hear the texture of his throat, the separation of his tongue from his palate. It is an intimate, almost intrusive level of detail.
