Album review: Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter – SAVED!

As Lingua Ignota, Kristin Hayter used music to express pain and process trauma. On 2017’s ALL BITCHES DIE, the songs were an uncomfortable listen, just as they were artistically compelling – unconventional and challenging, as well as the perfect broken vessel to carry such emotion. With 2019’s CALIGULA, meanwhile, she created one of the most difficult but truly expressive records of recent times, so intense it was at times hard to listen to, but again, a stunning manifestation of something genuinely troubled. On SAVED!, having drawn a line under her former artistic outfit to perform under her clergyed-up real name, Kristin is in a different place. Where previously the darkness had felt inescapable (one of the reasons for putting Lingua Ignota to rest, it becoming too ha...

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