Sinner Get Ready

Sinner Get Ready is the fourth studio album by American musician Kristin Hayter, and her last under her alias Lingua Ignota. Created in collaboration with producer and engineer Seth Manchester, it is the follow-up to Hayter's 2019 album Caligula. It was released on Sargent House on August 6, 2021, and was met with widespread acclaim from music critics.

Critical reception

Sinner Get Ready received widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the release received an average score of 83, based on ten reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave the album a 8.0 out of 10 score, based on their assessment of the critical consensus.
Music critic and YouTuber Anthony Fantano gave the album a rare perfect score.

Track listing

Notes

All tracks are stylized in all caps. For example, "The Order of Spiritual Virgins" is stylized as "THE ORDER OF SPIRITUAL VIRGINS".
"The Sacred Linament of Judgment" features audio from televangelist Jimmy Swaggart's "I have sinned" speech.

Personnel

Musicians

Kristin Hayter – vocals, piano, bowed banjo, cello, organ, bells, bowed psaltery, mountain dulcimer, banjo, prepared piano
Seth Manchester – prepared piano ; oscillators, extended banjo ; percussion, shruti box ; guitar, Moog ; banjo, Moog Grandmother
Ryan Seaton – clarinets, saxophones, melodicas, castanets, Tibetan cymbals, woodwind mouthpieces ; wooden drum with animal skin and single snare, frame drums ; vocals, Doepfer MS-404, wooden shakers, singing bowl ; bells, cowbell, wooden flute ; pennywhistle, Korg Wavestation ; trumpet VST, harmonica ; Moog Voyager, saxophone neck ; mandolins, cello VST ; FM8 soft synth, Juno 106, Roland TB-303, Wurlitzer, tambourine, electric guitars ; Eisenberg Vier soft synth
J. Mamana – banjo

Technical

Kristin Hayter – production, additional recording
Seth Manchester – production, mixing (recorded music)|mixing], recording
Ryan Seaton – additional production, additional recording, instrumental arrangements
Chris Gehringer – mastering

Artwork

Kristin Hayter – album photography
Alexis Marshall – album photography assistance
Ashley Rose Couture – mask
Chimere Noire – layout design