To me,
I’ve always felt that when you think of garage rock it was a man’s world. I look to Hunx and Nobunny and see the
majority of bands coming out of garages sounding like them and thus having male
vocals. If you want to break it down,
you can find the female equal to Hunx in Shannon and the Clams, but that’s
neither here nor there.
Colleen
Green has an interesting take on music.
Drum machine beats with garage guitar rock and female vocals that make
me think of The Murmurs. Sometimes the
bass lines even remind me of some old MxPx song.
Clearly
in a class all her own and without peer, Colleen Green even rises above that of
some of her comparisons that can be of the opposite sex. A song such as “You’re So Cool” can channel a
song like “Buddy Holly” by Weezer, but it does it in such a better way that I
like the Colleen Green song better.
How
many people will read that last sentence as me comparing Colleen Green to Buddy
Holly?
Last
year, around this time maybe a little after, I found Colleen Green via Burger
Records or something and so I listened to a few of her songs from Spotify Radio
(Long story that starts and ends with me being kicked out of a house that did
not have wifi) and had made notes about liking them.
But I
never really remembered much about the music some months later when I first
started listening to “Sock It To Me” on the real Spotify. I always just thought of her as being
something like Shannon and the Clams and couldn’t remember the lyrics to any of
those songs but just them being about Milo going to college or something.
So
naturally hearing this album was like hearing Colleen Green for the first
time. Though so far, as I’ve played
this numerous times, I’m still kind of shocked by how good it is for some
reason when I put it on. I’m not sure
why, but I always have lower expectations going into listening this than how
good it actually is. This is a
delightful surprise though.
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