Album Review: Lingua Ignota - SINNER GET READY

“‘Many Hands’ is an example of the cruel, unforgiving tone she can adopt. Here, Hayter’s voice is piercing in its blade-like precision as it cuts through thickets of buzzing psaltery and clanging dulcimer to look coldly down on a devout follower who is desperately repenting in the unforgiving night. She’s practically spitting with disgust as she describes his pitiful state: “‘I would die for you’ / ‘I would die for you’ he wept.” This severity is returned to on ‘Repent Now Confess Now’, which is the sound of someone taking glee at the beatings bestowed by God. “The surgeon’s precision is nothing / No wound as sharp as the will of God,” she sings, her voice splitting into a multitude of Gregorian intonations like a Hell-bound choir, while picked banjo and fraying saxophone prickle like ligaments being plucked from bone.”

I had the devilish pleasure of reviewing the new album from Kristin Hayter aka Lingua Ignota for The Quietus. Have a read.