On one of 2013’s greatest albums, Ezra Koenig posited, “Wisdom’s a gift, but you’d trade it for youth/ ‘Age is an honor’ — it’s still not the truth.” On one of 2015’s best, Colleen Green responds, “I’m tired of having no control/ I’ve had my fun/ I want to be old.” After years of self-destructive decisions, she wouldn’t mind some of that maturity that allegedly comes with decades. And over the course of this small-scale movie-as-album, she finds some.

Lots of artists write vividly about their neuroses, but few besides Green make insecurity and antisocial behavior seem so charming. On I Want To Grow Up, the L.A. fuzz-rocker matches almost comically straightforward musings about her deepest anxieties with smart melodies and industrial grade post-Weezer studio sludge via JEFF The Brotherhood’s Jake Orrall. While navigating her competing fears of daily human interaction and dying alone, Green cops to dependence on her loser ex-boyfriend, television, drugs, booze — everything but herself, basically — before landing on an epiphany: “I can do whatever I want.” From the towering overture of the title track to the revealing lows of “Deeper Than Love,” the album proves Green is indeed getting better with age. –Chris

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