The stripped-back new release showcases the artist at her most affecting and powerful.
On the gorgeously raw new single ‘Means to an End’, Vancouver artist Colleen Rennison bares her soul with emphatic, devastating effect.
The track is written about the bleak reality of a situation where the artist has reluctantly decided that the best parts of a relationship have been and gone, and it is time to just live with the pain and hope that it subsides. The affecting nature of the artist’s powerful vocal performance and the stripped-back instrumental, that features just a piano and some percussion, feels painfully stark and vulnerable, almost like you’re there for an intimate, heartbreaking conversation with the artist as she lays out her fear and sadness. All of these things make for ‘Means to an End’ a really affecting and emotional release, and one that continues to reaffirm the sheer gravity and lasting power of Colleen’s songwriting.
“This song is literally ripped from my diary with me sitting in the realization that the best has come and gone,” says Colleen. “It’s the bittersweet recollection of moments passed and wondering if this feeling of loss and melancholy is something that you’ll live with until you don’t live anymore. We first recorded this as a full band and I felt it turned out too CMT and didn’t do the song justice, so I brought the piano player and all around musical savant Alexander Ward back in and we did it with just piano and a little percussion, adding in the live strings which he also arranged later.”
