Scott Quinn has spent much of his career writing about connection, emotion and the complicated moments that exist between the obvious ones. On Being Human, his new ten-track album released today, October 2, that approach becomes the foundation for a collection built around love, loss, uncertainty and the relationships that shape us.
At the centre of the album is The Inbetween, a song that explores the uncertain space between staying and leaving. It captures a feeling that many relationships eventually reach, when neither decision feels simple and the answer is not necessarily found in choosing one side immediately. Instead, Quinn focuses on the emotional tension of remaining somewhere between the two.
The track sits within an album that treats being human as an ongoing process rather than a finished state. Quinn explores romantic love alongside family, friendship and the relationship people have with themselves, creating a project concerned less with perfect resolutions and more with the experiences that shape us along the way.
Being Human opens with Overdrawn, a song about giving everything to another person while still feeling that it is not enough. From there, the album moves through different versions of love and uncertainty. Right at the Wrong Time looks at the frustration of feelings arriving when circumstances do not cooperate, while All or Nothing takes a more direct approach to falling completely into a relationship.
The album's emotional range continues through Loving You Is Easy and With or Without Me before reaching The Inbetween. Later, Places in London turns toward the lingering effects of heartbreak, while Brother moves into family and the strength of a bond that Quinn describes as capable of bending without breaking.
Places in London has already introduced another important theme within the project. The song considers the hidden losses that follow heartbreak, particularly the strange experience of returning to places that once carried memories with someone who is no longer part of your life. Quinn has also created an accompanying online map where people can share locations they can no longer visit and the stories behind them.
That idea of memory and emotional geography fits naturally alongside The Inbetween. Both songs are interested in what remains unresolved after a relationship changes. Rather than reducing heartbreak to a simple beginning and ending, Quinn gives attention to the spaces that exist in between, where memories remain active and people are still working out what comes next.
The album closes with I Choose You, shifting the perspective toward a more deliberate celebration of love, life and the decision to share the journey with another person. Together, the songs create a progression from uncertainty and loss toward a more open acceptance of connection.
Quinn's background as both an artist and songwriter also informs the project. He has collaborated with artists including Martin Garrix, BTS, Zara Larsson, Steve Aoki, Keith Urban and NCT Dream, while his own releases have established a more personal side of his writing. His music has received support from BBC London and other outlets, while his intimate Live from the Clocktower concert series has developed a following around stripped-back performances.
The contrast between those two sides of Quinn is important to Being Human. His wider songwriting experience gives him an understanding of contemporary pop, while the new album is rooted in a more personal form of storytelling. The songs are built around recognisable situations rather than distant concepts, allowing the album to move between romantic relationships, family connections, heartbreak and self-reflection.
The Inbetween is therefore more than a standalone moment on the record. It represents one of the album's central ideas: that life is often defined by uncertainty, change and the decisions we have not yet made. Quinn's writing gives that uncertainty a place within a broader album about accepting the imperfect process of living, loving, losing and starting again.
Being Human is out now through Embassy of Music, with The Inbetween appearing as the album's seventh track. The ten-song record brings together the different sides of Quinn's songwriting into a project that ultimately returns to its simplest idea: that the difficult, unfinished and imperfect parts of life are often the ones that make us human.
