Bicycle Inn - Long In The Tooth

Formed in the winter of 2016, Bicycle Inn blends warm melancholy with an alternative edge on traditional emo. The Boston-based five-piece — Declan Moloney (bass), Noah Aguiar (guitar/vocals), Dylan Ilkowitz (guitar/vocals), Gilmar Perez (lead guitar), and Josh Giaquinto (drums) — has shared stages with Mike Kinsella (Owen), Crime in Stereo, The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, The Obsessives, and Taking Meds.

Long in the Tooth is about the traps of hero worship, the depths of religious trauma, and the desert of being caught up in the realization that this perfect world you’ve created in your head never truly existed at all,” the band shares. “This is an album about the un-learning process you embark on after being freed from idealism. You’ve become older in every way possible. You’re aware of the loose earth beneath your feet—how easily you can slip and spiral out of control. With shimmering guitars, soaring vocals, and lyrics that confront both the sacred and the hollow, the record captures Bicycle Inn at their most introspective and dynamic—bridging the ache of aging idealism with the spark of renewal that defines modern emo’s next wave.