(Sargent House) Kristin Hayter weaves layered harmonies and folk instruments into a formidable platform from which to express her tangled relationship with Christianity
‘Glorious Father, intercede for me. / If I cannot hide from you, neither can he,” Lingua Ignota’s Kristin Hayter sings, with a voice she once used as a church cantor; she has since rebuked her Catholic religion, but renounced a period of atheism too. She soon shrieks a desperate, heretical demand: “I don’t give a fuck! Just kill him! You have to! I’m not asking!”