Two things can be true at the same time. Anything glass sits as both a personal and somewhat fractured journey through dense, wavering themes of humanity, while also being, as it really only needs to be, a warm and captivating collection of pop songs. In both of these guises, it finds Brigitte Naggar expanding her musical palette to find greater details and evermorec olourful shades. It captures a moment in time, her band live and alive in a small room together, while singing also to worries and wisdoms so much greater than the sum of its parts. “Maybe this is a reach,” Naggar adds, reflecting on the album, “but I feel it echoing the fragility and containment of mortality –we exist in fragile bodies, in a fragile ecosystem, with fragile social structures... 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!”. On Anything glass, Common Holly takes those steps, first tentatively but ultimately with vigour, and then leaves it entirely up to us, the listener, as to whether we choose to follow them.

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