“Retrograde” was the first single from James Blake’s 2013 album Overgrown. Blake has explained in interviews that “Retrograde” was inspired by his then girlfriend, Warpaint guitarist Theresa Wayman. He gushed about his relationship with Theresa in an interview with Pigeons and Planes: "I had a muse this record — a beautiful person to write about, to be excited about, and to be sad to be missing… When I write, ‘We are alone now,’ it’s about exactly that, so for that reason people are relating to it."

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