Sock it to Me

Colleen Green always wears sunglasses onstage. Colleen Green is long hair and getting high. Colleen Green's first full-length for Hardly Art, Sock it to Me, is grounded in pure pop. Colleen Green's multi-tracked, emotive vocals take an enormous leap forward, evoking all-time heroes such as Rose Melberg and Tina Weymouth, with every drum-machine-tracked song awash in the dreamy slacker romanticism of California. Recorded May 2012 in Ruben and Lacey's basement, Seattle WA.

The songs on the L.A.-via-Boston grunge-popper's first full-length are brazenly simple, but they have a shrugging, take-me-as-I-am charm that makes them feel like celebrations of their own limitations, recalling Beat Happening, the Ramones, and Blink-182 before they briefly grew up.

On her first LP, Colleen Green doesn't make a huge leap forward from the cassette and CD-R songs on which she built most of her buzz.