The song ends with the same piano motif as the intro. In FLAC, the resonance of the strings after the final key is released lingers for a full 3-4 seconds. In MP3, the silence cuts in too quickly.
For fans who were teenagers in 2004, owning the CD was the only way to experience this fidelity. Today, a file is a digital time machine. It undoes 20 years of streaming compression and restores the song to its physical, analog-sourced glory. keane somewhere only we know flac
