A high-resolution 24-bit FLAC download of Radiohead’s latest album, The King of Limbs, is now available.
Available as a ‘Deluxe Flac’ for £8.99 from online music store 7digital, the album will also include a 16-bit FLAC and a 320kbps AAC version for music devices that do not support the FLAC format, such as Apple’s iPods, iPhones and iPads.
Ben Drury, CEO of 7digital, said: “We’re pioneering the move towards higher quality audio formats that offer higher quality music than the CD equivalents. The Radiohead album, produced by Nigel Godrich, was recorded in 24-bit digital audio and it’s great listeners will now be able to download and hear the album in the quality it deserves.”
Radiohead released their eighth studio album on their own website in February as a downloadable 320kbps MP3 file for £6 or as an uncompressed WAV file for £9. 7digital now plans to release more hi-res FLAC downloads in future.
Not forgetting their old school customers, the band will also release the album as a ‘Newspaper Album’ with two 10in vinyl records, a CD, a digital download and “many large sheets of newspaper artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork and a full-colour piece of oxo-degradable plastic to hold it all together”.
It will be available from 9 May.