★★★★★
The second Diane Coffee album from the now-Bloomington, IN-based Foxygen drummer Shaun Fleming is a colorful, '70s-influenced blend of airy psych-pop, slinky soul, theatrical glam-rock, twinkling Brill Building pop, spacy acid-rock and more. 9/4/2015
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- kexp.org
2015-09-05
★★★★★
Shaun Fleming's second solo album under his Diane Coffee guise, Everybody's a Good Dog, has as many personas as it has tracks. Fleming doesn't worry himself about timeframes or styles--or cohesion, for that matter. Whatever he's into turns up on Everybody's a Good Dog. The airy, breathy opener, "Spring Breathes," is not at all an indication of the album's direction, as the very next track, "Mayflower," is a Rolling Stones-style number but way noisier and with layers upon layers of fantastic...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2015-09-03
★★★★★
Diane Coffee is the alter ego of Shaun Fleming, recently seen behind Foxygen's drumkit. Fleming--who also had a spell voicing Disney characters in shows like Kim Possible--put together his Coffee debut, My Friend Fish, in two weeks. The album is a soundtrack of Fleming's relocation from the West to the East Coast, and although it was recorded in a cramped Manhattan apartment, the album's heart lies in the hazy, psychedelic California coastline of half a decade ago...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2013-12-14
★★★★★
The artist is no dusky Brazilian beauty; rather, Diane Coffee is the new solo project from Californian Shaun Fleming, last heard drumming with psych outfit Foxygen . The name may have origins in Twin Peaks , as we recall Special Agent Cooper dictating to his mythical secretary, Diane, and regularly grandstanding about the coffee served by the locals...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-12-12
★★★★★
Up until June of this year, Shaun Fleming was probably best known as the drummer in Foxygen, providing the backbeat for Jonathan Rado and Sam France to act out their often fractious, brittle relationship in public.
The band's tension-filled shows, whether for show and publicity or otherwise, probably arrived at their natural conclusion during SXSW where France had something of an on-stage meltdown, confronted a fan and the band subsequently cancelled a series of tours...
- www.thelineofbestfit.com
2014-01-05
★★★★★
Up until June of this year, Shaun Fleming was probably best known as the drummer in Foxygen, providing the backbeat for Jonathan Rado and Sam France to act out their often fractious, brittle relationship in public.
The band's tension-filled shows, whether for show and publicity or otherwise, probably arrived at their natural conclusion during SXSW where France had something of an on-stage meltdown, confronted a fan and the band subsequently cancelled a series of tours...
- thelineofbestfit.com
2013-12-12
★★★★★
Foxygen drummer Shaun Fleming's first solo record, as Diane Coffee, likes to genre hop in a way that may recall his band's work. But My Friend Fish digs into spacier, more soulful territory. Fleming proves to be a deft hand at bringing soul and R&B traditions to life alongside pop and rock structures. Opener "Hymn" shifts from syrupy space into a danceable freak-out in the middle that is striking, and sets up the bone-dry thump of "Never Lonely" well...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-12-13
★★★★★
Packed with peace, love and jangly guitars, Diane Coffee's debut LP, My Friend Fish, is an irresistible ode to '60s psychedelia. After only a few listens, it's hard not to slip into dreams of floral-crown-wearing hippies and cozy Haight-Ashbury cafés.
As the drummer for retro-rock outfit Foxygen, Diane Coffee (the solo moniker of Shaun Fleming), isn't a stranger to nostalgic jams...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2013-11-14
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