"CRAZY" - third track (one of my favorites) from new album.  Enjoyed mixing a nice fat bass line w/ lots of fun percussive sounds (paint cans, cardboard tubes, glass bottles, pieces of metal) and some ethereal synths.  The falsetto background vocals on the chorus are about as high as I can go. I think of it as kind of a sarcastic, obsessive love song. My favorite part is the chaotic disintegration at the end.

03 BEARINGS - "Crazy"

"Gravity" - 4th track on the new album. When I figured out the main crunchy synth at the beginning I immediately knew I had something, but getting a vocal I was happy with took forever. It went through about 4 completely different versions over several months before it became what you hear. And... after many, many failed attempts to whistle harmonies in tune for the outro lead, I ended up using a grand piano w/ distortion. Maybe the most frustrating song to finish.

04 BEARINGS - "Gravity"

05 BEARINGS - "Hard Driving"

07 BEARINGS - "You Carry Me Through"

08 BEARINGS - "107"

"Out" was co-written and co-produced with Joel Peach


Out (single)

A new take on the hymn: "God Himself Is With Us"
Original Text: Gerhard Ltersteegen (1729)
Updated Text and Music by Tom
Backup Vox: Hilary Dykstra

Single

God Himself Is With Us

A new take on the hymn: "Amazing Grace"
Original Text: John Newton (1779)
Updated Text and Music by Tom Dykstra

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