Bearings have today announced their brand new studio album “Comfort Company” out on November 7th, 2025, via Pure Noise Records.
Speaking about the upcoming record, frontman Doug Cousins said: “‘Comfort Company’ is for us the record that feels like coming back home. Some songs we wrote at a cottage together, others came from a basement. They all started somewhere honest and ended up back at the studio where we did our first album in the East End of Toronto. This album was working on music all day, walking to the beer store, then heading back to the windowless studio to relax before reading Kurt Vonnegut and eventually falling asleep on an air mattress. As we worked out what we wanted it to sound like we found ourselves wanting to make music that felt natural to us, something that we knew we’d connect with and be able to spill out on stage when the time came to perform it”.
To celebrate the upcoming album the band have release new single and video “Quick Release”. Watch the video below.
On the new single, Cousins added: “‘Quick Release’ for us embodies our time as a band. Years of hard work, years of touring different countries together, all the good and the bad. An acceptance of doing music – or really anything you love – just to do it, because it’s yours and because it’s what you love”.
Pre-order & pre-save “Comfort Company” here.
Tracklist:
1. Comfort Company
2. Float Away
3. Quick Release
4. Feel Less
5. Freaking Me Out
6. Water Your Flowers
7. Never Ending Cycle
8. Ease the Pressure
9. Through Those Eyes
10. Let Me Hate Myself
Over the last decade, Bearings have been in near-constant motion. Since their 2017 debut EP “Nothing Here is Permanent”, the Ottawa-formed pop-rock quartet have released three beloved albums on Pure Noise — “Blue in the Dark” (2018), “Hello, It’s You” (2020), and “The Best Part About Being Human” (2023) — while touring worldwide with acts like Neck Deep, State Champs, Less Than Jake, and Set It Off. Their mix of crystalline melodies, buoyant rhythms, and bursts of urgency has connected with audiences everywhere they’ve gone.
That momentum fuels their fourth full-length, “Comfort Company”, but this time the band turns their energy inward, exploring what it means to grow older in a world that never stops spinning. Written during long highway drives and quiet moments between shows, the album finds Bearings revisiting Room 21 in Toronto — the studio where they recorded their first EP and “Blue in the Dark” — with producer Kyle Marchant. It’s a full-circle return that let them reflect on how much has changed while reconnecting with their original spark.
Across its tracks, “Comfort Company” channels the chemistry that defines Bearings: the title track recalls the raw drive of Warped Tour days, “Quick Release” delivers a classic pop-punk hook with a fresh twist, and Derek DiScanio of State Champs guests on the bass-and-hi-hat-driven “Float Away.” Elsewhere, “Freaking Me Out” captures the tension of intrusive thoughts, “Feel Less” wrestles with fading emotions, and “Let Me Hate Myself” closes the album with all three vocalists intertwining. The result is Bearings’ most honest representation to date.
