Earlier this month, Montreal based singer-songwriter Brigitte Naggar (aka Common Holly) announced her first studio-recorded album, Anything glass, due for release June 13th via Keeled Scales and Paper Bag Records, along with the release of single "Aegean blue"—earning her praise from Pitchfork and Stereogum.
Following the quietly powerful hum of "Aegean Blue"—a beautifully reflective call to slow down—Naggar is now sharing "Enough," a playful yet vulnerable track on self-doubt and perfectionism. In a slightly quirky and offbeat shift in tone, "Enough", which Naggar explains fittingly didn't know exactly what it wanted to be, intimately explores what it means to be enough. The insightful songwriter debates, "I don't think what I do is enough... but maybe it's enough," delivered in hauntingly dissonant layered vocals. Naggar explains, "this track represents a spikier part of the record. It pokes out with sharper edges and a bit of noise. It speaks to the process of imagining that there could be such a thing as ‘enough-ness,’ and asks us to answer—enough for who? And for what?" This is what Common Holly does best: creating a safe, inviting space where one can doubt, reflect, and feel—without judgment or fear.
Brigitte Naggar (aka Common Holly) on the track: "This song took a few forms. Was it an indie rock track? I didn’t really want it to be. A little acoustic number? A tiny bit 90’s hip hop? It certainly wanted to be silly and fun. In the studio my drummer (Thomas Sauvé-Lafrance), a bit exasperated, asked me to show him how I would play drums on this song because he felt confused. I conjured up some terrible drumming, but then we found the feel. We toiled with how to make it fun, interesting, weird, cool, but also warm? And relatedly, it offered a narrative of self doubt, of ambition, of perfectionism, and of ultimately shrugging it all off. Naturally my bassist (Alex Rand) performed the piano solo at the end."