Canadian pop-punk act, Bearings, have just released a reimagined version of their single “Slip.” It comes from the recently announced deluxe reissue of The Best Part About Being Human. The record is due out 24th September, via Pure Noise Records. It was produced by Sam Guaiana (Silverstein, Between You & Me), and features three new songs and three re-imagined. Check out the new single and more in the article below.
The Best Part About Being Human Deluxe is available for order now at https://lnk.to/Bearings
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 tracklisting:
01 Stormy Weather (new song)
02 If I’m Being Honest (new song)
03 Make Your Way Back To Me (new song)
04 Scenery
05 Don’t Wanna Forget About It
06 Gone So Gone
07 Go Long
08 Ocean Dream
09 Howie, You’re A Freak
10 Slip
11 Live Forever Never Die
12 I Want To Heal
13 Human
14 Scenery (Acoustic)
15 Gone So Gone (Acoustic)
16 Slip (Acoustic)
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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. 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, 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.”
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