Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready (2021)

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Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready (2021)

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Lingua Ignota is classically trained vocalist Kristin Hayter. This music is sorrowful and almost religiously lamenting past regrets and abhors pleasure it seems. Songs, such as REPENT NOW CONFESS NOW can leave one in a depressed state of mind. Frequently drawing comparisons to Diamanda Galás, Hayter's vocals range from a delicate soprano to harsh shrieking, and her recordings, including 2019's Caligula and 2021's Sinner Get Ready, are ambitious, bracing blends of opera, power electronics, avant-metal, and folk influences. It’s a record born out of a period of turbulence for Hayter, as she stared down the barrel of a burgeoning pandemic, further compounded by the reverberations of a serious spinal injury sustained at a live performance, and its resulting surgery and recuperation. The unsettled foundations echo Hayter’s own Catholic upbringing and subsequent adoption of atheism, and across these nine tracks she creates a metaphorical ecosystem that ruminates on the impact of piety, rebirth, forgiveness, and catharsis. (If I'd scared you enough to lead you away from listening to the Covid-19 Pandemic Variant lament, I am sorry as that was not the intention). I want you to experience that epiphany I do believe she is trying to portray! SINNER GET READY is an uncompromising and often unsettling assessment of religion, but not outright damnation. Instead, an allegorical mirror is assembled using impressive songcraft and informed themes to display the conflict, duality, and divergence often present in the sacrosanct. Despite its theological bearings, this is no self-indulgent enlightenment project. It’s no less urgent, or immediate than previous works, and alongside flexing her multi-hyphenate musical capabilities and assertion as a visual and artistic auteur, Lingua Ignota once again exceeds expectations. This is a terrifyingly real LP that will surely blow your mind. (Not for the feint of mind PG-17 to be sure!) Pax and chillax with this album, thoughts? Luv, Murf

by Murray Winship, allmusic