The choice of FLAC is therefore not an audiophile affectation but an interpretive key. Love & Hate is an album about feeling two opposing forces simultaneously. Producer Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) and Kiwanuka deliberately employed vintage recording techniques and dense arrangements that threaten to collapse under their own weight. High-resolution audio preserves this threat; the listener hears the potential for chaos in the reverb tails and the unquantized grooves of “One More Night.” The format’s ability to retain dynamic range—from the whisper-soft verses of “Falling” to the explosive brass of “Black Man’s Struggle”—ensures that the listener experiences the album’s emotional whiplash as Kiwanuka intended.