Morning Spy

Morning Spy was a San Francisco-based indie pop band invested in electric guitar textures and fuzzy, yet intricate songwriting. Their debut LP, Subsequent Light, was released to modest obscurest acclaim, receiving positive reviews and eventually earning a spot on a handful of year-end "best of" lists. The limited edition Two Horses EP was released by KEEP Recordings soon thereafter to even better reviews. Abandoned Love Records released Morning Spy's third effort, The Silver Age, which draws from much of the modern history of outsider pop - at times evoking early 70's glitter rock, reverb-drenched dream pop, the lo-fi sentiment, heady soundscapes and occasional bombast. Jon Rooney and Mark Loftin formed Morning Spy as a recording project, adding Allison Goffman on vocals, guitar and keyboard and James Spadaro on lead guitar. Subsequent Light was recorded by Bart Thurber at House Of Faith Recording Studios in Oakland, CA. The band recorded Two Horses themselves at their rehearsal space in Balboa Park for release on KEEP Recordings. The Silver Age was recorded at Tiny Telephone by Aaron Prellwitz and Closer Studios by Glynn Durham in San Francisco, CA and mixed by Prellwitz at Tiny Telephone. Morning Spy toured throughout California and, in support of The Silver Age, much of the western United States. They shared the stage with such artists as Silversun Pickups, the Helio Sequence, Bound Stems, the Ex-Boyfriends, the Dying Californian and Minmae. Their music has received airplay from KCPR-FM (San Luis Obispo, CA), KZSU (Stanford, CA), CIUT-FM (Toronto), KSCU-FM (Santa Clara, CA), KUCI-FM (Irvine, CA), WMUC-FM (College Park, MD), Bagel Radio (San Francisco, CA), Radio XY and Jellyfish Radio and been featured in various television and film projects, including the independent films A Lawyer Walks Into a Bar and Emma as well as the CBS television show The Ghost Whisperer. Jon Rooney writes, records and performs as Virgin of the Birds and runs Abandoned Love Records in Seattle, WA. Mark Loftin has played with San Francisco bands Astral and Foxtail Somersault among other projects. James Spadaro plays lead guitar in Foxtail Somersault.