For her third Common Holly album, Montreal singer/songwriter Brigitte Naggar rejoined her longtime collaborator and co-producer Devon Bate while incorporating a couple of firsts: Anything glass is her first long-player to be recorded in a proper studio, and it was tracked mostly live (except for overdubbed multi-tracked vocals). What hasn’t changed is the quality of adjectives like “intimate,” “textured,” and “patient” to describe Naggar’s gentle, probing songs. “I’ve got these terrible hands,” is the repeated, allegorical opening line of first song “Terrible hands,” a reference to the consumerist tendencies of many of us as creatures on a planet in decline. While the concept is somewhat heavy (this line is later echoed by “We’ve got these terrible plans”),…

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