STEREOGUM: When Sock It To Me was released, many reviews focused on the song “Heavy Shit” as a kind of centerpiece, an homage to things sucking, but that song isn’t lyrically specific. So that was nice, it was nice to have other people help and support me. I really like recording and mixing, but it just was less of that stuff that I had to worry about, less work for me and I could just focus on making the songs sound as good as possible in the time that we had. I’ve definitely achieved the sound that I wanted, but it was a lot easier this time because, instead of obsessing over one thing and being by myself and not having anyone to bounce it off of, I would be like, “Hey, what do you think about blank?” It was just more collaborative, and it took a lot of pressure and stress off of me. That’s the main thing, because usually I play it all and then I record it all and then I mix it all, and I think I’ve done a pretty good job mixing in the past. GREEN: It was a lot less work for me, first of all. STEREOGUM: What was different about working with other people on a record compared to doing most of the instrumental work on your own? So I figured that would be a good fit because Jake and Casey are best friends, and they hang out all the time anyway in Nashville. I knew that I didn’t want to use a drum machine on this recording, and I knew that I wanted to work with someone else to produce my songs. We became really good friends and kept in touch after that, and he makes a lot of music outside of Diarrhea Planet that I really love, so we all three just kind of respected each other musically. We kind of just clicked, we’re like kindred spirits. Casey and I met when JEFF The Brotherhood took Diarrhea Planet and me on tour in 2012. We really liked each other’s music and just kind of kept in touch. I played a show with JEFF The Brotherhood in, like, 2011, and that’s how we met. GREEN: I’ve known both of those guys for a few years now. STEREOGUM: What was it like to work with Jake Orrall from JEFF The Brotherhood and Casey Weissbuch of Diarrhea Planet on this album? What’s your relationship with those dudes? How did you guys all end up working on this record together? All the other ones before it I’ve either recorded in my bedroom, in my friend’s living room, or in my friend’s basement, so this is the first time that Colleen Green has been recorded in an actual, legit studio. GREEN: Well, I probably wouldn’t call it a studio album, just ’cause I wouldn’t call anything that. STEREOGUM: I Want To Grow Up is being advertised as your first “studio album.” Is that mostly in reference to the fact that it isn’t self-recorded?
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In ten tracks, she purges herself of a series of internal monologues, seeking out the answer to why, at the age of 30, growing up seems just as difficult as it did at 18.
Green is a master at reordering the mundane, at recognizing the small things that make relationships, friendships, skirting addiction, and intimacy, seem impossible when life isn’t going according to plan. I Want To Grow Up is the Orrall-produced result of that collaboration, and it is Green’s most emotionally wrought work to date, a simply rendered collection of anxious songs whose bubblegum sheen belies the pain beneath. To make her third full-length, she traveled from her longtime home of Los Angeles to work alongside friends Casey Weissbuch (Diarrhea Planet) and Jake Orrall (JEFF The Brotherhood) in Nashville, Tennessee. She boasts one of the funnier Twitter handles in popular music ( and has crafted the kind of too-chill-to-stand-up-straight persona that might make her songs seem almost perplexingly simple if you’re unfamiliar with her lonely aesthetic Green recorded her first two albums, Milo Goes To Compton (2012) and Sock It To Me (2013), entirely on her own. Up until now, Colleen Green has been painted as a slightly stoned hero of the DIY underground.
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