Thank you!
Seltaeb, the 'piano' is like, two pianos (one in an orchestral plugin effed up, the other a vst called 4front piano which sounds kinda cheesy in a honkytonk way, then put through some light phase), plus a harpsichord and a celesta from the plugin. I love experimenting with that sort of thing.
I was sorta writing a Pet Sounds-ish instrumental type and was going to arrange it the same way, but some quote from Lenny Waronker about those early WB productions - The Mojo Men, Harpers Bizarre - stuck in my craw when I was thinking "yeah, lets put some tambourine/slide guitar/strings on that piano track" : Take a good song, and make it weird. So I went elsewhere, which I'm very happy about.
Kinda worried my collaborator is going to think it's a little too weird and tell me to tone it down. But hell. I get worried I emulate BW too much, so slamming everything through a phase/ring modulators/delay is way to get around that. I kinda wanna avoid High Llamas syndrome, where he appears to work from a very small sonic palette and just slap every song with the same sh*t. It's still pretty BW, I know. But no-one's going to listen to it and say "Well, he's clearly ripping off Pet Sounds to the letter." (at least, I hope not
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Speaking of which, Egohanger - you writing anything at the mo?