Sinner Get Ready (stylized in all caps) is the fourth studio album by American musician Kristin Hayter, and her last under her alias Lingua Ignota. Created in collaboration with producer and engineer Seth Manchester,^[2] it is the follow-up to Hayter's 2019 album Caligula. It was released on Sargent House on August 6, 2021,^[3][4] and was met with widespread acclaim from music critics.^[5]

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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]

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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]

The album also notably received a "10" from music critic Anthony Fantano, the most recent out of only seven albums to have ever received a perfect score from him as of September 2021.^[16]

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]

Musicians

• Kristin Hayter – 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 (3), mountain dulcimer (3), banjo (5), prepared piano (5, 8)
• Seth Manchester – prepared piano (1, 2, 8); oscillators, extended banjo (1); percussion (tracks 2, 4, 5), shruti box (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), melodicas (1–3, 5, 8), castanets (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, singing bowl (1); bells (2), cowbell (2, 3), wooden flute (4, 5, 9); pennywhistle, Korg Wavestation (4, 8, 9); trumpet VST, harmonica (4, 9); Moog Voyager (5, 8, 9), saxophone neck (5, 9); mandolins, cello VST (7, 9); FM8 soft synth, Juno 106, Roland TB-303, Wurlitzer, tambourine, electric guitars (8); Eisenberg Vier soft synth (9)
• J. Mamana – banjo (8)

Technical

• Kristin Hayter – production, additional recording
• Seth Manchester – production, mixing, recording
• Ryan Seaton – additional production, additional recording
• Chris Gehringer – mastering

Artwork

• Kristin Hayter – album photography (shooting, editing)
• Alexis Marshall – album photography assistance
• Ashley Rose Couture – mask
• Chimere Noire – layout design