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”
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)
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.”
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