Video: Bishop Briggs, ‘High Water’

Chris Arey on April 12th, 2022

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Vocal dynamo Bishop Briggs summons all her powers on two new emotionally charged singles, “High Water” and “Art of Survival,” released Friday via her new label home, Arista Records.

The tracks are odes to the artist’s older sister, Kate, who died in early 2021 of ovarian cancer. “I feel really grateful that I am here wide-eyed sharing new music with all of you,” she says. “I can’t say that I knew if that was going to be possible for me after my sister Kate passed away in January of 2021. With all soulmates there is an unbreakable bond and energy that ties the relationship so closely that nothing can break it.”

“High Water” comes from the depths of Briggs’s despair after losing her best friend and sister. In the video, directed by Tim Mattia, we see her in her most sincere form, on the verge of tears, belting her pain and loss.

“Art of Survival,” conversely, is about the drive to press on and to live life to the fullest. It’s “from a place of choosing to keep fighting to live fully,” says the London-born 29-year-old, born Sarah McLaughlin. Referencing her sister she adds, “I firmly believe this is where she would hope to find me.”

Briggs, who is pregnant with her first child (and in her third trimester), returns to the Coachella stage (her first appearance there was in 2017) this year, performing Friday and April 22.

||| Watch: The video for “High Water”