Bike Routes

Bike Routes is David Lawrence Osterhout. Deeply intimate, earnest, and heartfelt expressions of anxiety, heartbreak, and acceptance lie within deceptively sugary melodies and hooks. David’s acoustic guitar is the anchor, inviting listeners into a notebook full of emotion and authenticity.

The Garden State gave the world Bruce Springsteen, The Misfits, Lifetime, and The Gaslight Anthem. There’s perhaps a bit of the essence of each of those trailblazers within the Bike Routes sound. While the South Jersey singer/songwriter conjures the spirit of the iconic troubadours of indie rock, classic emo, and postmodern pop-punk, he distinctively carves a singularly unique identity all his own.

Songs like “You Want It You Got It,” “World Apart,” and “Airplane” are modern ready-made anthems. Bike Routes’ performances of stripped-down versions of Tigers Jaw, Death Cab For Cutie, and Springsteen songs stretch back to a few years before the arrival of his first EP, Just Let It Go (2020).

“I suppose I’m more of an indie rock or indie-pop songwriter, but emo and pop-punk are what I was raised on,” David reasons. The songs on his debut album, Love is an Action (2022), were warmly embraced by audiences who share his diverse tastes and relate to the passion within the songs.