After touring together for several years, members of Earlimart and Grandaddy decided to join forces in 2009. Jason Lytle, Aaron Burtch, Aaron Espinoza, and Ariana Murray dubbed their new project “Admiral Radley,” an anagram of the two bands that spawned it, and wasted little time drawing up an album’s worth of nuanced, melodic indie rock. I Heart California was issued one year later by Espinoza’s own label, The Ship, and Admiral Radley spent much of that summer on the road in support of its release. ~ Andrew Leahey, Rovi