“Diane Coffee's new album combines folk-rock and dream pop, and the results are masterful.” - BUST

Ahead of tomorrow's release of their new album, With People, Diane Coffee has shared a live performance video of the soaring track "Forever You & I," filmed at Dream Star II, the new studio of producer Jonathan Rado (Foxygen)—who also recorded and played guitar in the session. “This song means so much to me and any ideas for a traditional music video always seemed to fall flat,” explains Shaun Fleming. “To me, the only way to truly convey the feelings and emotions of this song was to do it live…and to do it with Rado.” 

"Forever You & I" is the third and final single from With People, following “Forecast (feat. Deep Sea Diver)” and "The Great Escape."

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, yet also feels universal in impact. 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.  

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. “It was a way for me to see all these people I couldn’t see, and to be with them in a time where that was impossible, in the form of song,” Fleming explains. The transportive nature of this creative process grew to encompass their upbringing in the suburbs of Agoura Hills, California, to which Fleming returned before recording as a way to recapture the feelings of their past.

Once the songs started taking definite shapes, Fleming hit the studio with former Foxygen bandmate 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 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. “This is the first time I’ve done something so personal, I wanted to pull back the veil and share myself through these stories. These are a lot of the moments that shaped me,” Fleming explains while discussing the album’s overall arc. “That said, the stories are thematically universal as well.” Indeed, there’s a relatability that shines through With People, a sonically timeless, lyrically insightful album that serves as a reminder that through music, and in life, we’re never really alone.

Diane Coffee’s U.S. headline will begin on May 13th in Seattle, WA, and includes two nights at Los Angeles’ Moroccan Lounge as well as a stop at Brooklyn’s Elsewhere Rooftop. Tickets onsale now.