Procol Harum - Greatest Hits -1967-1977--flac- (2025)

The core of Procol Harum's sound during this decade was built on the soulful vocals and piano of , the surreal, literary lyrics of Keith Reid

Is FLAC necessary for a greatest hits package? Purists will argue that Procol Harum’s work was never about audiophile perfection. Their genius was in the melancholy , the slightly out-of-tune piano, the imperfection of a live take. FLAC, by revealing every stray fret buzz and every intake of breath, risks turning the brooding majesty of Broken Barricades into a surgical dissection. Procol Harum - Greatest Hits -1967-1977--FLAC-

You can hear the weariness in Brooker’s voice—a tenor that always sounded like it was shouting through a rainstorm. In compressed formats, that voice blends into the wall of sound. In FLAC, the separation is stunning. Robin Trower’s guitar (before he left for his own power-trio fame) slices through with a razor’s edge on Whisky Train . The lossless format refuses to let the drums collapse into the bass; B.J. Wilson’s snare drum has a physical thwack that MP3s swallow whole. The core of Procol Harum's sound during this