Common Holly

The project of Montreal-based singer/songwriter Brigitte Naggar, Common Holly blends acoustic, electric, and manipulated textures to weave intimate, off-kilter songs. She made her Barsuk label debut with her second album, 2019's When I Say to You Black Lightning. After moving to Keeled Scales, 2025's Anything glass reflected such soft-spoken influences as Bill Callahan, Lomelda, and Mount Eerie. Naggar was born in New York, but her family moved from Brooklyn to Montreal when she was an infant. Both of her parents played musical instruments, and her father bought her first g...