Restraint
by Eponymous 4
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01. The One to Make You Whole
02. Without Nothing
03. Letter I
04. Release
05. All the Times I Remember
06. On Paper
07. Speechless
08. Melt
09. Emancipation
10. Reticence
11. Letter II
12. Strange Arrangement
13. Restraint
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Eponymous 4's Greg Bueno gave himself a challenge: Could an entire album be written avoiding common chord progressions?
He started working on that challenge in 1999, jotting down ideas for songs that tried to stay away from the usual I-IV-V chords of most pop music. That means bass lines moving in half steps and thirds, songs using nothing but major chords, melodies vacillating between sharps, flats and naturals. The style of the song didn't matter.
The resulting music took some pretty drastic turns. One track called to mind '80s new wave ("Melt"), another college rock ("Emancipation"). One song suits a jazz trio ("Strange Arrangment"), another an orchestra ("Reticence"). There's a piano ballad with quiet explosions in the distance ("Speechless"), and two sides of a correspondence never gets sent ("Letter I", "Letter II").
These songs came together as "Restraint", the second full-length album by Eponymous 4, written and initially recorded in 2005 immediately after "Imprint". It's an ambitious album spanning numerous and sometimes conflicting styles, held together by the idea that pop music could afford to be just a little strange.
Greg isn't much of a guitar player, but "Restraint" marked a pivot in his writing that moved away from the keyboard. His first demos for the album faked the guitar parts with sample libraries. Those demos were released as the third volume in the Work Release Program. Amplification modeling software, however, allowed Greg to hear the songs closer to what he imagined.
So he endeavored to replace those fake guitar parts with real ones — as much as he was capable — and rechristened the Work Release Program as the Ex Machina Series.
This reissue of "Restraint" are the songs how Greg intended them to sound.
He started working on that challenge in 1999, jotting down ideas for songs that tried to stay away from the usual I-IV-V chords of most pop music. That means bass lines moving in half steps and thirds, songs using nothing but major chords, melodies vacillating between sharps, flats and naturals. The style of the song didn't matter.
The resulting music took some pretty drastic turns. One track called to mind '80s new wave ("Melt"), another college rock ("Emancipation"). One song suits a jazz trio ("Strange Arrangment"), another an orchestra ("Reticence"). There's a piano ballad with quiet explosions in the distance ("Speechless"), and two sides of a correspondence never gets sent ("Letter I", "Letter II").
These songs came together as "Restraint", the second full-length album by Eponymous 4, written and initially recorded in 2005 immediately after "Imprint". It's an ambitious album spanning numerous and sometimes conflicting styles, held together by the idea that pop music could afford to be just a little strange.
Greg isn't much of a guitar player, but "Restraint" marked a pivot in his writing that moved away from the keyboard. His first demos for the album faked the guitar parts with sample libraries. Those demos were released as the third volume in the Work Release Program. Amplification modeling software, however, allowed Greg to hear the songs closer to what he imagined.
So he endeavored to replace those fake guitar parts with real ones — as much as he was capable — and rechristened the Work Release Program as the Ex Machina Series.
This reissue of "Restraint" are the songs how Greg intended them to sound.
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released October 8, 2013
All music and lyrics by Greg Bueno
Published by Shinkyoku Advocacy (ASCAP)
Eponymous 4:
Greg Bueno » keyboards, guitars, bass, vocals
Produced and engineered by Greg Bueno
Recorded in the Closet, 2005-2011, Austin, TX and the Closet West 2013, Seattle, WA
Photography by Lauren Tarbel
Cover design by Greg Bueno
Thanks to Lauren Tarbel and James R. McGirr
All music and lyrics by Greg Bueno
Published by Shinkyoku Advocacy (ASCAP)
Eponymous 4:
Greg Bueno » keyboards, guitars, bass, vocals
Produced and engineered by Greg Bueno
Recorded in the Closet, 2005-2011, Austin, TX and the Closet West 2013, Seattle, WA
Photography by Lauren Tarbel
Cover design by Greg Bueno
Thanks to Lauren Tarbel and James R. McGirr
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Eponymous 4 Seattle, Washington
Eponymous 4 is the home studio project of Greg Bueno, a lapsed musician and web developer or a lapsed developer and web musician. It depends.
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