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94
The classically trained musician and performance artist sheds her Lingua Ignota moniker in a cathartic, unspooled revelation.
2y
90
No moment of SAVED! winds up there accidentally, and none of it is half-assed.
2y
83
Like Bob Dylan sang before her: it is good to be SAVED! We can be happy at least, that some of Hayter’s grief has turned to joy, and that she wants to share the path that she’s found to salvation, in compelling artistic form.
2y
80
It’s another reminder that things aren’t always as straightforward as they seem – those who promise to save you can herald your demise, just as those who haunt you are sometimes only trying to save you. Meanwhile, as paramount as healing from the past is, it can’t save you from the horrors of the present and the future.
2y
80
It’s a trying, uneasy, thoughtful, and ultimately uplifting experience that demands attention with every aspect of its production, and shows Hayter’s style of performative musicianship from a different, more expansive, accessible but no less eloquent angle.
2y
80
Hayter fervently straddles a line between proclamation and judgment, venting and preaching, deliverance and elitism. She is, perhaps, lost and saved at the same time, again wielding paradoxes with grace and ferocity.
2y
80
Kristin’s creative approach to hymns and Appalachian folksong made SAVED! a powerful concept album.
2y
80
Creatively, it is an inspired idea, carried off by a unique talent. Artistically – that is, as a means of expressing something from within – it brings both a feeling of overbearing dread, and an honest sense of empowerment and reaching up for something, of shedding skin in order to find comfort.
2y
80
Whether or not she found salvation through this process is almost immaterial; the search for meaning and safety is laid bare, an uneasy and despairing listen that might not discuss trauma any more but is still rooted in it.
2y
75
After retiring the Lingua Ignota moniker, the transgressive diva takes a scholarly deep dive into the ecstatic and strangely melodious world of traditional Christian hymns and original devotionals.
2y
70
But even as her spoken tongues intensify as the record draws to a close, you can't quite discern what she believes or why she stands at the pulpit to preach salvation, which makes the record's spiritual catharsis ever the more mystifying.
2y
70
Although littered with sonic subterfuge, Saved! is, in essence, a gospel record. An exercise in seeking salvation through the ecstasy of religious fervour, it strips away most of the excoriating noise of the Lingua Ignota years, revealing the true depth and breadth of Kristin’s extraordinary voice over swampy, treated pianos.
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2y
70
If you think these songs are boring or too long, if you are uninterested in listening or can’t decide between irony or sincerity, get the fuck out.
2y
Jesus Christ, this is a lot. Hell, this review is gonna be a lot. This will be a weird one, sorry in advance.
I want to make myself very clear that I say this without any exaggeration or hyperbole - Kristin Michael Hayter makes some of the most powerful music of our time.
Now, if you’re not entirely familiar with her name, you might think I’m a crazy person. “Baddie, what the fuck are you saying? I have never heard of this person, and I’m looking at her artist page ... read more
"I walked in the darkness, just like you!"
I've been heavily anticipating this album for a while, given the fact that Kristin Hayter has quickly become one of my favourite artists in the past few months, having one of the most powerful voices I've ever heard. Not to mention that her style of music was also viscerally terrifying to experience along with her lyricism that dealt with trauma, abuse and murder ballads.
The way she presented her trauma through her songwriting and darkwave ... read more
“But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven!”
Unearthing that which is buried within the music of Kristin Michael Hayter, daring to dig for meaning past the petrifying shrieks and enormous walls of church organs that scare off casual listeners, will divulge lyrical themes rooted in a contrasting mix of religious iconography and hellish trauma. Raised in an intensely Catholic household, Hayter spent many of her formative years ... read more
opposite from her past projects as lingua ignota, kristin hayter redeems god place in her life, no longer seeing him as wrathful but as the way to find salvation, using her real name works as a empowerment, trying to leave the pain and revenge in the past to be saved.
musically it’s really interesting, it takes classic appalachian folk and adds textures to make it sound like an old tape, her voice loose a lot of the focus that received in her past projects to place that focus in the story ... read more
I love the concept of this album. It shines a light on religious fanaticism of the old south and how fear inducing they tried to be
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Track List
| 1 | I'M GETTING OUT WHILE I CAN 3:38 | 86 |
| 2 | ALL OF MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO HELL 4:39 | 87 |
| 3 | THERE IS POWER IN THE BLOOD 0:52 | 78 |
| 4 | IDUMEA 3:55 | 86 |
| 5 | I WILL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS 6:33 | 91 |
| 6 | PRECIOUS LORD TAKE MY HAND 1:34 | 81 |
| 7 | MAY THIS COMFORT AND PROTECT YOU 4:11 | 86 |
| 8 | THE POOR WAYFARING STRANGER 7:32 | 89 |
| 9 | NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD OF JESUS 1:10 | 80 |
| 10 | I KNOW HIS BLOOD CAN MAKE ME WHOLE 4:13 | 89 |
| 11 | HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING 8:06 | 92 |
Total Length: 46 minutes
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