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 debut album for Hardly Art, Sock It to Me, the Oakland-based one-woman band Colleen Green comes off like a darker, more complex version of Best Coast.

Colleen Green explores simple, sunny pop music with her latest LP, and first for Hardly Art, Sock It To Me.

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.