We don’t throw the word ‘masterpiece’ around lightly, but Lingua Ignota’s 2019 album Caligula, is worthy of that accolade – a bewilderingly inventive work of stately beauty and jarring noise that triumphantly turned her personal trauma into glorious art.
Now Lingua Ignota – aka classically-trained singer and multi-instrumentalist Kristin Hayter - has returned with a brand new single, the stark and stunning Pennsylvania Furnace, which dials back the noise for dramatic, piano-led atmospherics.
The song apparently “reflects on the inevitability of God’s judgment, evoking the legend of an 18th-century ironmaster whose dogs return to drag him down to hell after he throws them all into his furnace in a rage”, while the video, filmed in rural Pennsylvania, was directed, shot and edited by Hayter alone.
We caught up with her to find out what we can expect from the new album…