Kevin Bronson on February 17th, 2015

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“I’m sick of being dumb,” Colleen Green sings on the title track of her new album “I Want to Grow Up.” Either as a reply to the Descendents’ 30-year-old “I Don’t Want to Grow Up” or as a cautionary note to a scene that celebrates youth-infatuated culture and all its foibles, it’s a welcome rallying cry. Green is exactly as old as that Descendents’ track, and her third album (out Feb. 24 via Hardly Art) recalls whip-smart voices from the ’90s such as Juliana Hatfield, Liz Phair and Bettie Serveert. The album’s Weezeresque crunch comes with help from JEFF the Brotherhood’s Jake Orrall and Diarrhea Planet’s Casey Weissbuch, who participated in the recordings last year in Nashville. But it’s what she’s saying as much the infectious way she’s saying it. “Gotta stop doing things that are bad for me,” Green frets in “Things That Are Bad for Me.” “I can’t hold a conversation,” she confesses, apologizing for her ADD in “Pay Attention.” And lamenting matters of the heart, she wonders “Do you want a girl who’s interchageable?” — because, after all, “It’s such a huge world / I guess any girl / is as good as me.” After hearing this album, you will hardly think so.

||| Stream: “I Want to Grow Up” and “Pay Attention”

||| Also: Stream the whole album

||| Live: Colleen Green plays Feb. 24 at Amoeba, Feb. 27 at HM157 (her album-release party), March 27 at the Echo (opening for Hinds) and March 29 at Burgerama 4 at the Observatory.