A decade ago, singer-songwriter and visual artist Colleen Green burst into the indie-rock sphere with I Want to Grow Up , her third album and the first she’d recorded with a band in a studio. Its smart, charming blend of punk, bubblegum pop, and lo-fi indie rock proved her to be a rising talent who knew her way around a melody—and she could also have fun with inside jokes without resorting to gimmick or parody. (The titles of I Want to Grow Up and her 2010 debut full-length, Milo Goes to Compton , both riff on the names of Descendents albums.) On Green’s most recent full-length, 2021’s Cool , she applies her glorious songwriting chops and witty lyrics to disaffected slacker rock and jangly indie pop, sometimes drifting into darker strains of psychedelic rock, postpunk, and garage.

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