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Sinner Get Ready
Studio album by Lingua Ignota
Released	August 6, 2021 (2021-08-06)
Studio	Machines with Magnets (Pawtucket)
Genre	Avant-garde Appalachian music classical
Length	55:53
Label	Sargent House
Producer	Kristin Hayter Seth Manchester
Kristin Hayter chronology
Agnus Dei (2021) Sinner Get Ready (2021) Saved! (2023)
Lingua Ignota chronology
Agnus Dei (2021) Sinner Get Ready (2021) The End: Live at Islington Assembly Hall (2023)
Singles from Sinner Get Ready
"Pennsylvania Furnace" Released: June 17, 2021 "Perpetual Flame of Centralia" Released: July 15, 2021

Sinner Get Ready (stylized in all caps) 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

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	8.0/10
Metacritic	83/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
Beats Per Minute	88%
Exclaim!	9/10
The Guardian
Kerrang!
Loud and Quiet	9/10
Metal Hammer
Mojo
Pitchfork	8.0/10
PopMatters	8/10
Slant Magazine

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.

Accolades

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 (all tracks), piano (tracks 1, 4, 6–9), bowed banjo (1, 6), cello (1, 2, 5), organ (2), bells (2, 3, 6), bowed psaltery (3), mountain dulcimer (3), banjo (5), prepared piano (5, 8)
• Seth Manchester – prepared piano (1, 2, 8); oscillators, extended banjo (1); percussion (2, 4, 5), shruti box (3, 6); guitar, Moog (3); banjo (5), Moog Grandmother (8)
• Ryan Seaton – clarinets (1, 4, 8, 9), saxophones (1, 4, 5, 7–9), melodicas (1–3, 5, 8), castanets (1–3, 8), Tibetan cymbals (1–3), woodwind mouthpieces (1–5, 7, 9); wooden drum with animal skin and single snare, frame drums (1, 4); vocals, Doepfer MS-404, wooden shakers, singing bowl (1); bells (2), cowbell (2, 3), wooden flute (4, 5, 9); pennywhistle, Korg Wavestation (4, 8, 9); trumpet VST, harmonica (4, 9); Moog Voyager (5, 8, 9), saxophone neck (5, 9); mandolins, cello VST (7, 9); FM8 soft synth, Juno 106, Roland TB-303, Wurlitzer, tambourine, electric guitars (8); Eisenberg Vier soft synth (9)
• J. Mamana – banjo (8)

Technical

• Kristin Hayter – production, additional recording
• Seth Manchester – production, mixing, recording
• Ryan Seaton – additional production, additional recording, instrumental arrangements
• Chris Gehringer – mastering

Artwork

• Kristin Hayter – album photography (shooting, editing)
• Alexis Marshall – album photography assistance
• Ashley Rose Couture – mask
• Chimere Noire – layout design

Charts

References

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• 2021 albums
• Albums produced by Kristin Hayter
• Kristin Hayter albums
• Sargent House albums
• Compositions for prepared piano
• Albums produced by Seth Manchester