I didn't want to make the guitar cry or sing in "Look and See". I did, initially, consider having some of the synthesizer passages played on electric guitar, but realized in time that that would have turned the song into a power ballad. And given that one of this project's aims is to de-cheese an accidental 80s stylization, that's clearly far too risky.
So instead, the guitar's all acoustic on this one. It starts off double-tracked for a thick texture. Guitar 2 then drops out at the end of the first "chorus" section, officially starting the song's "decrescendo". I introduced some further wrinkles into this by having guitar 1 switch between arpeggios and strumming quite freely.
Having said that, adding acoustic guitar to warm up the synthesizer intro ended up revealing how out-of-place some of the dissonance in said intro is. I'm going to need to rewrite one of those synthesizer parts. So "Look and See" isn't quite done yet, although I find it amusing that the need to tone down the "experimental" synthesizers is yet more unexpected common ground between this song and "Modern Art"!
This actually won't be the only instance in the song of a synthesizer gimmick from the Escapade version being removed or toned down: in the original there's a four-note descending "music box" bit, at the end of the first chorus, panned hard right with no reverb, thus creating the unnerving impression that the PSR-5700 is whispering in a headphone listener's ear. In the Escapade 2 version, I transferred this to the piano. In the Chronicles version, I'm omitting it altogether, as I feel that combined with the busier drum part, it would just create clutter.
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