Common Holly announced They will draw halos around our heads, a five-track EP arriving February 27 via Paper Bag Records in Canada and Keeled Scales internationally. Brigitte Naggar, the Montreal musician behind the project, plays P’tit Ours on February 12 ahead of the release.
The EP follows Anything glass, Naggar’s third album as Common Holly, released in June 2025. That record got coverage from Pitchfork, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, and Line of Best Fit. Exclaim! called it a staff pick, noting how Naggar “infuses her signature stately ballads with denser instrumentation and jazz-inspired flourishes.”
Naggar released Dyson three weeks ago as the lead single from the new EP. She wrote it in about five minutes while waiting for a vacuum delivery, thinking about Beckett, God, and the dust in her house. “I was thinking about places where we wait,” she said. “Montrealers will know all about the SAAQ, our finest purgatory.” The song sounds different from her usual work. Naggar said she must have been listening to Jonathan Richman when she wrote it, and the whole thing came together faster than normal.
The EP includes Specialness, You have to look like something now, the title track, At a time, and Dyson. Naggar described Anything glass as “a passage through stumbling and into calm, not a resolution but a natural cycle,” and the new songs pick up from there. In late 2025, she also released a cover of Amour Amour, a 1970s French classic originally sung by Catherine Deneuve.
Common Holly’s sound gets tagged as “sincere-core,” a term that fits Naggar’s direct lyrics and willingness to sit inside uncomfortable feelings without dressing them up. The P’tit Ours show on February 12 is her first Montreal performance since announcing the EP. The record is available for pre-order and pre-save now.
They will draw halos around our heads – TRACKLIST
1. Specialness
2. You have to look like something now
3. They will draw halos around our heads
4. At a time
5. Dyson
Photos – Aabid Youssef
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