Everybodys A Good Dog

Description

P features deluxe packaging including embossed text and printed inserts. Shaun Fleming is a member of Foxygen. The album features Felcia Douglass of Ava Luna and Sam France of Foxygen. In December of 2012, former Disney actor and didgeridoo craftsman Shaun Fleming moved from his hometown of Agora Hills, CA to a Manhattan apartment. The move took its toll on Fleming, who soon fell ill with the flu. Fleming holed up in his apartment writing and recording songs everyday, a process that gave birth to the alter-ego Diane Coff¬ee, and her first album My Friend Fish. My Friend Fish was an album born out of sickness and nostalgia for the sunshine and solitude of California. Sweet, gritty, and full of life, the songs were our first glimpse into Dianes vibrant and pleasantly twisted world. Its not surprising that after visiting the charming midwest town of Bloomington, IN (home of Foxygens label) Fleming decided to make yet another spontaneous move. I might just like new surroundings. Naturally the move and the return to a small town got his creative juices flowing again. Just as the move from sunny California to New York inspired a dark album with relatively optimistic lyrics, his move from New York to Bloomington inspired the new album Everybodys a Good Dog, a bright energetic album with relatively dark lyrics. Unlike the production limitations that defined the sound of My Friend Fish (recording drums on an iPhone, using a detuned guitar in lieu of a bass, etc) Everybodys a Good Dog was recorded in proper studios with a full band, horns, and a string ensemble, finally bringing to life Flemings deep well of talent and ideas. The album opens with the dynamic Spring Breathes, which erupts from sweet acapella into bursts of full band mayhem as Fleming croons about a new love. Mayflower with its big brass and Motown swagger is a contender for party jam of the year, while the head-bobbing GovT explores politics involved in the music business, and the struggle to govern and be governed. Too Much SpaceMan, a psychedelic trip into the eyes of a jaded defense attorney, is followed by I Dig You Baby on which Fleming comes unhinged as he channels early New York Dolls. The album closes with the bittersweet Not That Easy, which finds Fleming coming to terms with the fact that hell never been an ordinary partner, I will always be the lover coming home, he says. The albums unstoppable grooves and melodies were written with live performance in mind. When you hear him pouring every bit of his two decades of experience as a performer into these songs, its clear that Diane Coffee is not a side project, its THE project Fleming has been working towards his whole life.

its like sifting through a treasure trove of half-remembered gems. NME 8/10

Given the strength of this debut, Fleming cant be in much of a hurry to get back behind the drum kit. Q 4*s

closer to those whacked-out 60s sounds than many latterday impersonators. Brilliant. Record Collector 4*s