Common Holly is the project of Montreal artist Brigitte Naggar. Today, she has shared the first taste of her forthcoming Lp Anything glass, to be released via Paper Bag Records in Canada/Keeled Scales in the U.S. The album drops on June 13th today, she shares lead single “Aegean blue.”

“Aegean blue” features beautiful piano work, a vibrant undertow to Naggar’s doubled-vocals that lend a spell-like quality to the track. “Aegean blue is a reckoning in meaninglessness and unending pursuit,” Naggar explains. “The words came in a moment of change and of re-evaluating. This song sits squarely in the album’s theme of orienting toward what matters most, doing things differently when they aren’t feeling right.”

Pulling double duty professionally as a mental health worker, Naggar cites the work of Bill Callahan, Mount Eerie, Lomelda, and Leonard Cohen as impacting her writing and outlook: artists who make the personal feel universal, but also songwriters that conjure a world around their work.

Says Common Holly: “we exist in fragile bodies, in a fragile ecosystem, and when we are feeling lucid, we remember we won’t live forever. And that inevitable end encases and contains us by reminding us to look inside and to locate what matters most…and to go toward it!”

Common Holly
Anything glass
Tracklist
Keeled Scales/Paper Bag Records

1. Terrible hands
2. Aegean blue
3. Enough
4. It’s true we’ve been happier
5. Jazz song
6. I weighed it up
7. The wood from the stall
8. Right in between the lines
9. A pair of ragged claws
10. Wise mind

Pre-order Everything Glass by Common Holly HERE