Diane Coffee: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

November 02, 2015 by ROBIN HILTON Diane Coffee gives the kind of live performances you talk about for weeks after seeing. It s not that the band tears up the stage. There s no elaborate light show or other orchestrated theatrics. The main attraction and the reason you ll want to watch and hear more is Diane Coffee s fantastically flamboyant lead singer, Shaun Fleming. Conjuring both Mick Jagger and David Bowie, Fleming swaggers and shimmies on stage. He strikes playfully defiant poses, hands on hips, while his face does its own dance, with wildly exaggerated expressions: raised brows, eyes wide open, mouth enunciating every word. Not bad for someone known primarily as the drummer in Foxygen. For the first half of this Tiny Desk performance, Fleming remained relatively restrained behind the mic, strumming an acoustic guitar. The band opened with Spring Breathes, a sprawling showpiece with so many changeups it feels like an entire album s worth of music, followed by the melancholy and soulful Not That