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Motopony was formed In 2009 with the meeting of songwriter Daniel Blue and co-producer Buddy Ross, drummer Forrest Mauvais, and guitarist Brantley Cady. The band was named for Daniel s appreciation for the spiritual duality of the physical and digital, with moto -the representing side - and the pony - the animal. Originally based in Tacoma, WA, it wasn t long before they relocated to Seattle. They began playing shows locally in 2009 and soon were scooped up by the label Tiny Ogre and released their first self-titled record in 2010. With guitarist Mike Notter added to the mix, the band toured on the record nationwide. After finishing a string of tours around the album, they took time to write dozens of songs and reformed with Ross and Cady leaving and new members Nate Daley, Andrew Butler and Terry Mattson joining the band. In 2014 the EP Idle Beauty was released on Eone Music/Fast Plastic and the band did a three month international tour last fall which took them to the UK, India and included a stop in London to record an acoustic EP in Abbey Road Studios with producer Rob Cass.

Motopony's new full length - Welcome You - was recorded at Bear Creek in Seattle by producer Mike McCarthy (Spoon, Heartless Bastards. Trail of Dead) and mixed in London by Guy Massey (Radiohead, Spritualized, The Libertines). Welcome You will be released on Eone Music/Fast Plastic on June 23.