SINNER GET READY

Pitchfork 8.0/10 Kristin Hayter’s latest is an intense and frightening religious inquiry, incorporating traditional Appalachian instruments and samples from televangelist sermons.

The Needle Drop 10/10 Hallelujah.

Kerrang! 4/5 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.

Mojo 4/5 Sinner Get Ready spotlights the itinerant Californian's magnetic vocals by removing harsher textures ... She's more lyrically expansive too.

Distorted Sound 8/10 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.

Metal Injection 10/10 After such a colossal exercise of trauma, Lingua Ignota’s followup strips back its harsh electronics, harnessing acoustic ruin for a harrowing spiritual journey.

Loud and Quiet 9/10 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.

Slant 4/5 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.

Pop Matters 8/10 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.

The Guardian 4/5 Kristin Hayter weaves layered harmonies and folk instruments into a formidable platform from which to express her tangled relationship with Christianity.

Spectrum Culture 80% 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.

Beats Per Minute 88% 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.