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Sinner Get Ready (stylized in all caps) is the fourth studio album by American musician Kristin Hayter, released on Sargent House on August 6, 2021.[2][3] It is the follow-up to her 2019 album Caligula. Sinner Get Ready was created in collaboration with producer and engineer Seth Manchester at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.[4] The album was met with widespread acclaim from music critics.[5]

Sinner Get Ready
Studio album by Lingua Ignota
Released	August 6, 2021 (2021-08-06)
Studio	Machines with Magnets
Genre	Neoclassical Darkwave Avant-garde[1] Appalachian music[1] classical[1]
Length	55:53
Label	Sargent House
Producer	Kristin Hayter Seth Manchester
Lingua Ignota chronology
Caligula (2019) Sinner Get Ready (2021)
Singles from Sinner Get Ready
"Pennsylvania Furnace" Released: June 17, 2021 "Perpetual Flame of Centralia" Released: July 15, 2021

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	8.0/10[6]
Metacritic	83/100[5]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Beats Per Minute	88%[7]
Exclaim!	9/10[8]
The Guardian	[9]
Kerrang!	[1]
Loud and Quiet	9/10[10]
Metal Hammer	[11]
Mojo	[12]
Pitchfork	8.0/10[13]
PopMatters	8/10[14]
Slant Magazine	[15]

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."[5] Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave the album a 8.0 out of 10 score, based on their assessment of the critical consensus.[6]

Accolades

Sinner Get Ready on year-end lists

Publication	List	Rank	Ref.
Beats Per Minute	Top 50 Albums of 2021	3	[16]
Crack	The Top 50 Albums of the Year	30	[17]
Decibel	Top 40 Albums of 2021	14	[18]
Exclaim!	50 Best Albums of 2021	32	[19]
Junkee	The Best Albums of 2021	N/A	[20]
Kerrang!	The 50 best albums of 2021	23	[21]
Norman Records	Top 50 New Albums of 2021	6	[22]
Our Culture	The 50 Best Albums of 2021	16	[23]
Paste	The 50 Best Albums of 2021	23	[24]
Pitchfork	The 50 Best Albums of 2021	41	[25]
PopMatters	The 75 Best Albums of 2021	23	[26]
Rough Trade UK	Albums of the Year 2021	50	[27]
Slant Magazine	The 50 Best Albums of 2021	39	[28]
Treble	The 50 Best Albums of 2021	19	[29]
The Needle Drop	The 50 Best Albums of 2021	2	[30]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Kristin Hayter and co-produced by Hayter and Seth Manchester, with additional production by Ryan Seaton.

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.[13]

Personnel

Adapted from CD liner notes.

Musicians

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

Technical

Artwork

Charts

Chart performance for Sinner Get Ready

Chart (2021)	Peak position
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[31]	11
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[32]	12
US Top Album Sales (Billboard)[33]	36
US Top Current Albums (Billboard)[34]	21

References

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