COOL | MUSIC CASSETTE C Political pop can be awkward

Political pop can be awkward

a cutting cello from Ouri Riou

to be happy

self-protective instincts

And her genre-agnostic production makes classification difficult

COOL | MUSIC CASSETTE C Political pop can be awkwardColleen Green has always been cool, but on 215's I Want To Grow Up, she didn't necessarily feel it. Too young to be free of insecurities but old enough to be sick of them running her life, Green was experiencing an existential crisis. Five years and a new album later, we find her parsing out what it means to be grown up and realizing that it's actually pretty cool. Opener "Someone Else" is a paean to power in which Green let's a lover know that double