Album Review
Colleen Green - Cool
4 StarsColleen Green has always been cool. It’s just that she seems content now, too.
The last time Colleen Green put a record out, she was facing up to turning thirty, and it showed. ‘I Want to Grow Up’ was an album that was superficially in the image she’d crafted on previous albums ‘Milo Goes to Compton’ and ‘Sock It to Me’ - sardonic lyricism, ironic detachment - but beneath the surface, there was genuine angst. What was she doing with her life? Where was all of this leading? Over the course of an extended lay-off - this is her first new album in six years - she seems to have found some answers. ‘Cool’ is a gorgeously breezy collection that drills down into life’s fundamentals on the upbeat, handsomely melodic likes of ‘Posi Vibes’ and ‘It’s Nice to Be Nice’. Opener ‘Someone Else’, meanwhile, might be the standout, pairing nineties college rock guitars with languid, almost conversational vocals that have Colleen letting go of constant self-comparison. Hints of her last album’s emotional tumult remain - ‘Highway’ is a case in point - but in the main, ‘Cool’’s sharp pop unfolds with a satisfying lightness of touch. Colleen Green has always been cool. It’s just that she seems content now, too.
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Colleen Green reveals new single ‘Highway’
Her new album 'Cool' arrives on Friday.
8th September 2021, 12:00am
Colleen Green shares new single ‘Someone Else’
It's the opening track of her forthcoming album, 'Cool'.
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Colleen Green shares new single ‘It’s Nice To Be Nice’
Lifted from her forthcoming new album, 'Cool'.
19th July 2021, 12:00am
Colleen Green announces new album ‘Cool’
And she's sharing first single 'I Wanna Be A Dog' to celebrate.
23rd June 2021, 12:00am
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