Diane Coffee has announced their fourth album, With People, out April 29, available for pre-order now on limited edition Clear Blue w/ 4-Color Splatter. Shaun Fleming's new full-length is their most intimate and personal to date, a collection of diaristic ruminations and contemplative observations of the people in their life. Combining the breezy wistfulness of classic folk-rock with orchestral pop’s broad sweep, With People is both new territory, as well as a full-circle return to their roots.  

Lead single “Forecast (feat. Deep Sea Diver)” —a track with a lush, chiming, indelibly tuneful melody juxtaposed with its recounting of a turbulent relationship— arrives alongside an official video directed by Vince Patrick and Melinda Fleming. Watch below. 

Produced by Jonathan Rado (Weyes Blood, The Killers), With People, came about in the early stages of the pandemic as Fleming’s songwriting took an unexpectedly personal turn. The follow-up to 2019’s exquisite Internet Arms, sees Fleming zooming in on not only their own emotions and experiences, but the people that have impacted their life—whether over an extended period, or through smaller, short-term interactions—many of the songs centering on a specific moment or memory from their own history. 

Once the songs started taking definite shapes, Diane Coffee hit the studio with former Foxygen bandmate and production wizard Jonathan Rado. “I left the demos a lot more sparse and open to interpretation than on past records. I really wanted to leave as much room for Rado to produce as possible,” they explain. The two fleshed out what would become With People in a series of sessions that were quick and artistically productive, bringing new nuances out of these ten songs as they worked together. The result is an album that sounds warm, nostalgic, and lived-in, like an old friend sharing closely held stories while sitting on a moonlit porch. 

The band will also be hitting the road this spring and summer on a run of U.S. headline dates that includes two nights at Los Angeles’ Moroccan Lounge in May and a stop at Brooklyn’s Elsewhere Rooftop in June. Tickets onsale tomorrow at 10am local time.