Originally released in 2015, this third release in the Retrograde Single Series spotlights songs with a more fluid sense of harmony.

On “The One to Make You Whole,” Eponymous 4’s Greg Bueno tweaks one of most popular chord progressions in pop music (I-V-vi-IV) to make it shifting and unstable. The song’s lyrics pose time-old question about self-worth and destiny but not necessarily about interpersonal relationships.

In his junior year of high school, Greg wrote a pop music requiem mass heavily influenced by Enya and Andrew Lloyd Webber. The only part of the work to be recorded as a demo was the Offertorium. The rest of the requiem has since been scrapped, but the Offertorium was reworked as “The Dreaming End”.

During college, Greg was a big Anne Rice fan, and “I’m the Shadow” took more than a few cues from The Witching Hour. At the time, Greg couldn’t quite capture what he wanted to do melodically and shelved the song. He gave it another stab 20 years later to come up with the recording on this release.