Common Holly Sign To Keeled Scales, new album Anything glass out June 13th

Montréal based singer-songwriter Brigitte Naggar (aka Common Holly) wants her music to challenge listeners, "to feel something, create something, do something, and be alive in this ever-waning time." Today, she's announcing her first studio-recorded album, Anything glass, via Keeled Scales and Paper Bag Records, along with the release of single "Aegean blue"—both of which are sure to do just that.

With influences like Bill Callahan, Mount Eerie, Lomelda, and Leonard Cohen, Naggar weaves soft, enchanting imagery in "Aegean blue," with lyrics such as "make me a river I can run through" and "who will do better, the one with the candle or the paddle?" Paired with stunning visuals in the accompanying video, this track's folklore-esque storytelling and gentle nature invite listeners to slow down and truly feel.

Brigitte Naggar on the track, "A reckoning in meaninglessness and unending pursuit. The words came in a moment of change and of reevaluating. This song sits squarely in the album’s theme of orienting toward what matters most, doing things differently when they aren’t feeling right. You can hear some of the vocal doubling here–since the album was recorded live, many (all?) of the songs have doubled vocals, because I would sing live while we were performing the song, and then I would later add more vocals on top of that initial vocal. This came to be a quality we liked in the whole experience of the album."