Bearings announce Deluxe Album + New Single 'Stormy Weather'
BEARINGS
RELEASE DELUXE ALBUM
'THE BEST PART ABOUT BEING HUMAN'
OUT 20TH SEPTEMBER 2024 VIA PURE NOISE RECORDS
NEW SINGLE 'STORMY WEATHER' OUT NOW
Bearings have announced a deluxe version of their record The Best Part About Being Human via Pure Noise Records. Produced by Sam Guaiana (Silverstein, Between You & Me). The record will feature three new songs and three re-imagined.
On the lead single, the band says "Stormy Weather is about being exhausted by your situation, but fighting through it. A bad period of time sucks but you have gotta get through it and have a little faith in the future"
Listen to the track HERE
The rest of the album features the most tightly honed songwriting of Bearings’ near-decade career – including “Gone So Gone”, “Live Forever Never Die,” and “Slip” – leaving listeners instantly nostalgic for sweaty summer festivals and finger-pointed singalongs while serving as a clear indication of where the pop-punk genre is headed.
The Best Part About Being Human Deluxe Tracklist:
Stormy Weather (new song)
If I’m Being Honest (new song)
Make Your Way Back To Me (new song)
Scenery
Don’t Wanna Forget About It
Gone So Gone
Go Long
Ocean Dream
Howie, You’re A Freak
Slip
Live Forever Never Die
I Want To Heal
Human
Scenery (Acoustic)
Gone So Gone (Acoustic)
Slip (Acoustic)
Order here
LIVE SHOWS:
25th May- No Man's Land, St Catherines ON
ABOUT THE BAND
By the time Bearings got the chance to properly tour their sophomore album, 2020’s Hello, It’s You, 16 months had passed due to, well, you know the story. But despite the false starts getting back onto the road, in a roundabout way the delayed gratification might have been the very best thing for the Ottawa-based pop-punk quintet and their passionate fans alike.
“I thought not being able to tour the record would be a death sentence, but it allowed people to sit with the album and connect to it in deeper ways,” says vocalist Dougie Cousins. “When we finally went and did our headline tour in 2022, crowds really knew the songs.”
In the end, Hello, It’s You solidified Bearings’ place as genre mainstays, elevating a tried-and-true pop-punk sound Alternative Press hailed as “dangerously catchy” that “could bring down a summer barbeque, if not a festival,” while their home and native land’s Exclaim! said Bearings had “entered the pop-punk big leagues.”
But as Cousins, guitarists Ryan Culligan and Ryan Fitz, bassist Collin Hanes and drummer Mike McKerracher began work on LP3 (their Pure Noise debut, Blue In The Dark, dropped in 2018) with producer Sam Guaiana (Silverstein, Between You & Me), they channeled their triumphant return to the stage in sweaty U.S. and Canadian clubs, opting for a more minimalistic approach to the songwriting process.
Centering the most elemental, essential qualities of their musicianship without falling into the kid-in-a-candy-store trappings that bog down so many artists, Bearings’ third album for Pure Noise, The Best Part About Being Human, is the sort of record that begs to be played loudly, the sounds of sunny SoCal filtered through the lens of the Great White North.
“We just wanted to make a fun record,” Cousins espouses. “Sometimes when an album is so thought out, it’s got to be as good as American Idiot or it comes off as trying too hard. I think we did new things without sending it into outer space. To me, this record sounds like how I felt when I was in grade 10 listening to blink-182: not too serious, just a good time and able to open up a little circle pit. I think we succeeded in writing songs we can play in a basement or in front of 2,000 people.”
The Best Part About Being Human Deluxe is available for order now at https://lnk.to/Bearings
