Look Hear? finds 10cc pared down to Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman, their Strawberry Studios facility churning out competent pop-rock that lacks the mischievous invention of their Godley and Creme years. The 1980 release peaked at number 35 in Britain, its modest chart showing reflecting both the duo's diminished ambitions and new wave's ascendancy.

One-Two-Five scraped the UK top 30, but the album's workmanlike professionalism couldn't mask what was missing: the experimental spark that once made this band's art-pop genuinely unpredictable.