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"On Melancholy Hill" stands as one of Albarn's finest pop moments, and the transition halfway through "Empire Ants" (featuring Little Dragon ) remains one of the most celebrated beat drops in the band's history. Standard editions have 5099962618421
The year 2010 was the height of the "Loudness War." Many CDs released then were brickwalled—crushed digitally to sound louder on iPod earbuds. Plastic Beach , however, was mastered with surprising nuance. Tracks like “Empire Ants” (featuring Yukimi Nagano) rely on a dramatic shift from whispered intimacy to euphoric synth explosions. On a standard 320kbps MP3, that transition loses its air.