Video: Diane Coffee, ‘Forecast’ (feat. Deep Sea Diver)

Kevin Bronson on February 24th, 2022

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Leave it to Shaun Fleming — aka Diane Coffee — to strike just right chord for the easing of the pandemic’s shackles.

The new single “Forecast,” which features vocals from Deep Sea Diver’s Jessica Dobson, is a happy-go-lucky indie-pop tune (old school, driven by the guitars) with a smile-inducing chorus, a dizzying countermelody and a hilarious central conflict. The latter: “God I hate you / Want to date you.”

The song introduces Diane Coffee’s fourth album, “With People,” arriving April 29 via Polyvinyl.

Of the song, Fleming says: “For almost 15 years I had this ‘on again, off again’ relationship. It was always very hot, very intense and always ended very badly. But no matter how awful the ending, how bad we knew we were for each other, we somehow always found ourselves being pulled back into it. I think deep down we loved the chaos, the crazy. We were the definition of a ‘fatal attraction.’”

The album, produced by ex-Foxygen bandmate Jonathan Rado, comes advertised as less glammed-up that Diane Coffee’s previous material and more in the vein of classic folk-rock.

“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,” Fleming says. “We wanted it to feel organic and in the moment, and to mirror the album’s lyrical honesty. It kept revealing things about me personally, and the pacing of the sessions kept things fun, fresh, and open.”

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