Freya Ridings’ self-titled debut positioned her as one of the U.K.’s most affecting new voices, a songwriter who treats vulnerability as architecture. Co-written by Matt Morris, “Holy Water” serves as the album’s emotional apex — an ascending ballad built on piano and orchestral swells. The track captures Ridings’ instinct for dynamic tension: verses hover in stillness, choruses break open like weather. Critics praised Freya Ridings for its emotional precision and unvarnished sincerity, and “Holy Water” became its gravitational center, the moment where control yields to release.