MTV Network's OurStage:
"While Foxtail Somersault owe a major debt to the British shoegaze bands of twentyyears ago, their tweaks on the classic sound prove that they are talented enough to truly make it their own....the band gigs regularly around the Bay Area and has performed with notable indie acts such as The Rosebuds and Holly Miranda. Oh, and did we mention they’ve played at Lollapalooza as well? We told you they’re not kidding around."
--Mikel McCavana, 2011

Nightflying: The Entertainment Guide:
"Mark loftin wrote, performed, and recorded all this music, with a bit of help on guitar from Duke Welch. It came from North Beach, San Francisco, California, and is just about as strange as that part of the world...it is quite interesting."
--2010

San Francisco Music News:
"A Million Miles from Nowhere twangs into sweeping swirls with interesting drum bursts..."
--2010

Space City Rock:
"the band (Morning Spy) adds just enough variations to the arrangement and dynamics keep the thing moving but not so much that it takes away from the sleepy mood, particularly with regard to the discipline of the drumming."
--2006

Pop Matters:
"Morning Spy is making beautifully intelligent pop music …The Silver Age is an excellent record. Rating: 7/10"
--Peter Funk, 2005

San Francisco Chronicle:
"Starting with an already-cultivated dream pop, mid-fi composite, the San Francisco quartet have built on their strengths with a trajectory somewhere between Destroyer and Grandaddy. Their new LP, The Silver Age (Keep and Abandoned Love), shows a quickly developing maturity in songwriting and production, with greater interaction between music and lyrics, and a mix that displays a well-toned sonic physique"
--2005

The Portland Mercury:
"Wow - San Francisco's Morning Spy split the difference between Dean Wareham's Galaxie 500 meanderings and the more focused pop of Luna--weaving through it all contemporary strands of indie rock."
--2005

Mesh Magazine:
"This San Francisco indie pop band's second release is a solid effort, emitting the sound of Luna with a tinge of Papas Fritas. 'Two Horse' is a good pop song, with a great guitar outro. 'Voices and Vigils' also has a similar guitar finale that is oh so good. Just when you think that the band is getting slightly edgier with the beginning of 'Sugar Witch', it bring you back to the lo-fi indie pop harmony that encompasses the entire album. If you love indie pop, Morning Spy won't disappoint."
--Ian Rivamonte, 2005

Punk Planet:
"Fans of the New Pornographers will find a lot to love in Morning Spy; the comparison is probably inevitable since both bands split lead vocal duties between strong male and female singers. While not as rocking and power-poppy as the Pornographers can be, The Silver Age is an album full of sweet, dreamy pop music that's inviting and infectious."
--2005

Performer Magazine:
"Subsequent Light's stand-out song is easily "Daughter's of History,"...the recording flows with a pleasing mid-tempo beat courtesy of Mark Loftin on drums. Traces of the Velvet Underground - strike that, indelible footprints - are all over Morning Spy's music."
--Kathie Pomposo, 2004

Splendid:
Morning Spy's pretty dream pop with classical indie pop underpinnings will float through your head like gossamer, and never ever stay. Dreams never do, though, so the tap tap tap of the steady, almost martial drum in "Summer Ache", which could just as easily be heel-taps, steps in and out quite naturally.
--Jenn Sikes, 2003