''Sinner Get Ready'' (stylized in

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) is the fourth

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by American musician Kristin Hayter, under her alias Lingua Ignota. Created in collaboration with producer and engineer Seth Manchester, it is the follow-up to Hayter's 2019 album ''

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''. It was released on

Sargent House Sargent House is an American management company and record label based in Los Angeles. It was founded in June 2006 by Cathy Pellow, who is a music video commissioner for Atlantic Records and also owns a music video production company called Ref ...

on August 6, 2021, and was met with widespread acclaim from

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Critical reception

''Sinner Get Ready'' received widespread critical acclaim. At

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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the release received an

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score of 83, based on ten reviews, indicating "universal acclaim." Aggregator

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gave the album a 8.0 out of 10 score, based on their assessment of the critical consensus.

Accolades

Track listing

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's "I have sinned" speech.

Personnel

Musicians *

Kristin Hayter Kristin Hayter (born June 17, 1986) is an American singer and pianist. From 2017 to 2023, she released music and performed under the name Lingua Ignota (Lingua ignota, Latin for "unknown language"). Her professional music career began in 2017 ...

- 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 A psaltery ( el, ψαλτήρι) (or sawtry, an archaic form) is a fretboard-less box zither (a simple chordophone) and is considered the archetype of the zither and dulcimer; the harp, virginal, harpsichord and clavichord were also inspired by ...

(3),

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(3), banjo (5),

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(5, 8) * Seth Manchester - prepared piano (1, 2, 8); oscillators, extended banjo (1); percussion (tracks 2, 4, 5),

shruti box A shruti box (sruti box or surpeti) is an instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, that traditionally works on a system of bellows. It is similar to a harmonium and is used to provide a drone in a practice session or concert of In ...

(3, 6); guitar, Moog (3); banjo (5), Moog Grandmother (8) * Ryan Seaton - instrumental arrangements (all tracks), clarinets (1, 4, 8, 9), saxophones (1, 4, 5, 7–9),

melodica The melodica is a handheld free-reed instrument similar to a pump organ or harmonica. It features a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. The keyboard usual ...

s (1–3, 5, 8),

castanets Castanets, also known as ''clackers'' or ''palillos'', are a percussion instrument (idiophone), used in Spanish, Kalo, Moorish, Ottoman, Italian, Sephardic, Swiss, and Portuguese music. In ancient Greece and ancient Rome there was a simil ...

(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,

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(1); bells (2), cowbell (2, 3), wooden flute (4, 5, 9);

pennywhistle The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is a type of fipple flute, putting it in the same class as the recorder, Native American flute, and other woodwind instruments that meet such criteria. ...

Korg Wavestation The Korg Wavestation is a vector synthesis synthesizer first produced in the early 1990s and later re-released as a software synthesizer in 2004. Its primary innovation was Wave Sequencing, a method of multi-timbral sound generation in which d ...

(4, 8, 9); trumpet

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, harmonica (4, 9);

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(5, 8, 9), saxophone neck (5, 9);

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s, cello VST (7, 9); FM8 soft synth,

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, tambourine, electric guitars (8); Eisenberg Vier

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(9) * J. Mamana - banjo (8) Technical * Kristin Hayter -

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, additional recording * Seth Manchester - production, mixing, recording * Ryan Seaton - additional production, additional recording *

Chris Gehringer Chris Gehringer (born May 27, 1962) is an American mastering engineer, known for having mastered recordings such as Gwen Stefani's '' Love. Angel. Music. Baby.'' (2004), Rihanna's '' Loud'' (2010), Lady Gaga's '' Born This Way'' (2011) and Drake' ...

– mastering Artwork * Kristin Hayter - album photography (shooting, editing) * Alexis S.F. Marshall - album photography assistance * Ashley Rose Couture - mask * Chimere Noire - layout design

Charts

References

{{reflist 2021 albums Sargent House albums Works for prepared piano