Close your eyes and just imagine you are lay on a grassy slope in a fantastical dream, in which George Harrison rides naked on a Shetland pony with Tom Jones tagging along behind. If there’s anything not so strange you notice about that, it’ll be that the music of Diane Coffee fits the scene perfectly.
You wouldn’t believe the album took 2 weeks to write and record in the bedroom of flu-ridden Foxygen drummer Shaun Fleming. Shaun and his group had a rough setup. Their instruments consisted of broken cymbals, pots and a detuned guitar for a bass. They emulate the type of music where you don’t have to be blessed with the best instruments to create the best sound.
Essences of Tom Jones, Diana Ross, Donovan and the like pierce through your ears on first listen. Mixed with more of the eclectic tastes of Foxygen, incorporating their raw 60s and 70s influences, they bulged onto the music scene with debut album ‘My Friend Fish’ on Western Vinyl. This is not an album that should pass anyone by. It has a soothing quality, reassuring us that the sounds we grew up with and the artists our parents listened to can be given life, resurrected onto the modern music scene – Tracks like ‘Hymn’ fully materialise that.
Listen to ‘Hymn’ below:
The vocals embody the song they have created, the passionate cries that lead into a more personalised version of ‘Get Back’. A few more unmissable tracks from the album are ‘Tale of a Dead Dog’, ‘Green’ and ‘New Years’ – listen to ‘New Years’ below:
