Following their 2020 Grave of a Dog debut which happened to feature a certain Kristin Hayter (Lingua Ignota), Sightless Pit (duo Lee Buford of The Body and Dylan Walker from Full of Hell) return (sans Hayter) with sophomore release Lockstep Bloodwar (Thrill Jockey).
For the last five years Kristin Hayter a.ka.Lingua Ignota has been one of the dominant voices in underground music. She has announced via an Instagram post that she will retire the Lingua Ignota name and catalog in 2023. She is about to kick off a final headline and has a “few things” in early 2023 before she moves on to a new music direction. We have been fortunate to cover Kristen all over the world, these many years, and it was an honor to expeirence her voice and art each time. We look forward to whatever future path her career takes and music she makes.
Lingua Ignota’s music has always come with a certain duality as her first three albums cycled through the harshest Industrial textures and the most arresting Neoclassical Darkwave. However, that duality has seemingly been phased out with the release of her fourth full-length, Sinner Get Ready (Sargent House). The walls of noise are considerably subdued in comparison to past outings and the vocals are devoid of screams and distortion, leaving the songs to be primarily driven by sparse piano and organs with layers of melismatic cleans.