Last year Melbourne artist Wren Bellette released her debut single, ‘Woman’, and followed it with ‘Sailor’. Now she is working towards the 16 August release of an album, This Love Will Die, co-produced with Taasha Coates of The Audreys, and is releasing a new single from that album, ‘Lying to Myself’, which is having its premiere here today.
Listen to ‘Lying to Myself’ here
In the past Bellette was a member of band The Heggarties, and it turns out that ‘Lying to Myself’ dates from that time.
‘I had written this years earlier and we played it in my previous band but I never sang it,’ she says. ‘This was one of the few songs I had written that was totally drawing on the emotions I was feeling in my relationship but ironically I was lying to myself that it wasn’t based on me.
‘So when I revisited this song and decided to sing it myself I also had to admit to myself that it was about me. I might have been the last person to know that, and it 100% belongs on this album for all these reasons.’
As with her previous singles, Bellette’s voice is the first reason to pay attention to the song, as there is so much richness in it, and as a songwriter she understands that such a voice demands a substantive set of lyrics, which is what she delivers in ‘Lying to Myself’. They are full of regret and dismay yet, by the end, we can hear in Bellette’s last refrain of ‘because I’ve been lying’ that there is recognition of the cost of those lies and determination to change.
So come for Bellette’s voice and stay for the stories – both combine to create a compelling single that only builds anticipation for the album.