Lingua Ignota - SINNER GET READY
Critic Score
Based on 16 reviews
2021 Ratings: #18 / 753
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2021 Rank: #5All Time: #478
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
Metal Injection
After such a colossal exercise of trauma, Lingua Ignota’s followup strips back its harsh electronics, harnessing acoustic ruin for a harrowing spiritual journey.
90
Exclaim!

Lingua Ignota comes off much more sombre and reflective, and Sinner Get Ready is nothing short of a strikingly effective album, sounding more like an incantation than a mere collection of songs.

90
Loud and Quiet
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.
90
Metal Hammer

A haunting, intricate, yet wonderfully complex piece of work, Sinner Get Ready is uncategorisable – still instantly recognisable as Lingua Ignota while managing somehow to sound like nothing you’ve ever heard before.

88
Paste

On Sinner Get Ready—her first release for Sargent House—she leans more into the droning classical, chant-based material from Caligula while introducing a more minimal, Appalachian-folk influences to her orchestrations

88
Beats Per Minute

These nine songs will still speak to those willing to listen, speak of the arrogance of those claiming superiority, of the delusion of lovers and anger of those left by the wayside; of the loneliness of the mortally confused, and of the jealousy of those left behind.

80
Pitchfork
Kristin Hayter’s latest is an intense and frightening religious inquiry, incorporating traditional Appalachian instruments and samples from televangelist sermons.
80
PopMatters

On SINNER GET READY, Lingua Ignota resides in the world, but not of it, crafting a bone-chillingly cathartic final product that deals in righteousness and reflection in turns.

80
Sputnikmusic

SINNER GET READY leaves me feeling cold. The record is freezing, terrifying, and entirely captivating, leaving its listeners in a similarly distressed state.

80
Slant Magazine

Sinner Get Ready is driven by a penetrative imagination, a preternatural sense of empathy, and an innate awareness of the paradoxical nature of human existence.

80
The Guardian

Kristin Hayter weaves layered harmonies and folk instruments into a formidable platform from which to express her tangled relationship with Christianity.

80
Mojo

Sinner Get Ready spotlights the itinerant Californian's magnetic vocals by removing harsher textures ... She's more lyrically expansive too.

80
Spectrum Culture
Twisting her industrial metal into a warped kind of folk, Kristin Hayter deepens the furious desperation of her lyrics into something elemental to the human spirit.
80
Kerrang!

Without a single blastbeat or power chord in earshot, Kristin has created the heaviest, most intense album you’re likely to hear this year, one that makes a tremendous addition to what is becoming one of the most idiosyncratic bodies of work in modern experimental music.

80
Distorted Sound

Where LINGUA IGNOTA has previously been used as a mouthpiece for Hayter‘s heart breaking torment, SINNER GET READY is more conceptual. The emotions it evokes aren’t quite as extreme as those forced from us on CALIGULA (be thankful for that), but this remains a record of huge gravitational pull.

August
100

this is my opinion

BaddieBaphomet
100

Well, Bo, looks like you got a competitor.

Singer, songwriter, screamer, multi-instrumentalist, cuntkiller, death dealer, butcher of the world, and lover of Cheez-It’s Kristin Hayter AKA Lingua Ignota has been making more and more noise in the experimental and underground metal communities, having a sound that draws from so many various inspirations yet bent to be incredibly unique to her. Due to her eclectic background in classical music, heavy genres, academia, and an almost ... read more

BradTasteMusic
93

This album helped remind me of what made music click for me in the first place. Mysterious atmospheres that make some sense when put together in a bigger picture. I couldn't tell you the meaning of most of these songs without doing a ton of research, but the sum of the pieces feels like something complete and grand in its own way. I loved how different this was from her last project. This album is a lot more focused on calming dark atmospheres as opposed to the loud hellscape that Caligula was ... read more

DoulgH
90

Mais etéreo, menos barulhento, mas ainda muito brutal. Não diria nem que é melhor, nem que é pior do que os outros 2 anteriores, mas diferente.

swanslover911
100

Very intense and raw

EHAN
98

Lingua Ignota + Reverend Kristen Michael Hayter (5/6)

This is gut-wrenching yet beautiful, like bloody poppies in a field. I feel adding the context regarding the frontman of Daughters makes the meaning and the delivery of Hayter's performance so much more impactful. Her gospel influenced sound and dissonant Neoclassical Darkwave create an atmospheric experience that can not be competed against. It's trauma at its rawest form. Anger fuelling the performance. An explosion of despair. I've never ... read more

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Added on: April 2, 2021