Caligula
by Lingua Ignota
User Score
8.1

Universal acclaim- based on 60 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 50 out of 60
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 60
  3. Negative: 6 out of 60
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  1. sammyanthony
    Aug 5, 2019
    8
    Caligula (from the Roman Emperor reference) tells all devastating effects of vices: depression of humanity as byproduct of wars among humans or within themselves. Lingua Ignota told us their uncertainties for two choices of life. The result is wicked, that is the desire to take revenge. It's f**king wicked that reminds us all how humans can be out of their own control from wickedness theyCaligula (from the Roman Emperor reference) tells all devastating effects of vices: depression of humanity as byproduct of wars among humans or within themselves. Lingua Ignota told us their uncertainties for two choices of life. The result is wicked, that is the desire to take revenge. It's f**king wicked that reminds us all how humans can be out of their own control from wickedness they suffer in life.… Expand
  2. IronToolBox
    Aug 7, 2019
    9
    This record is even more incredible trip to hell than it’s predecessor. Wow.
  3. Vanners
    Aug 20, 2019
    9
    This album very, very nearly passed me by. I seen it on the home page for weeks, passing it up on every opportunity. Had I known what to expect coming in, I would've swerved it completely. Yet on the spur of the moment, I felt compelled to just try it out and see what the hype was about, and after the first track I was allured by the beautiful strings and gorgeous singing.

    What followed    This album very, very nearly passed me by. I seen it on the home page for weeks, passing it up on every opportunity. Had I known what to expect coming in, I would've swerved it completely. Yet on the spur of the moment, I felt compelled to just try it out and see what the hype was about, and after the first track I was allured by the beautiful strings and gorgeous singing.

    What followed was nothing I truly expected to experience, but it caught me so off guard that I wanted more. I was left on the edge of my seat from the very first time she began screaming and let me tell you, never would I find this enjoyable, and in a way I didn't, I was beyond terrified, constantly. I never knew when she would just catch me off guard again. At one point I actually reacted to one such moment in such a way that I burst into tears.

    The way "Lingua Ignota" weaves in-between superb classical music, accompanied by pristine beautiful vocals and deathly shrieking alongside crashing cymbals and what not is an experience I cannot begin to describe.

    I actually forced myself to close the lyrics as I didn't want to potentially spoil the surprise for myself when she did change it up so suddenly and that gripped me so so much more.

    I have been that genuinely frightened by this album that the most harrowing thing was the abrupt end to the closer and then it all starting over again.

    "Lingua Ignota" passed what she set out to do with this album, by instilling fear into its listeners. In my case, it was an almost unhealthy dosage, but alongside the gorgeous instrumentation and super vocals that acts as a false breather in an album where you never know where she might strike next, in my eyes I don't believe it could've been executed more perfectly.

    Favourite Tracks:
    FAITHFUL SERVANT FRIEND OF CHRIST, DO YOU DOUBT ME TRATIOR, BUTCHER OF THE WORLD, MAY FAILURE BE YOUR NOOSE, FRAGRANT IS MY MANY FLOWER'D CROWN, IF THE POISON WON'T TAKE YOU MY DOGS WILL, DAY OF TEARS AND MOURNING, SORROW! SORROW! SORROW!, SPITE ALONE HOLDS ME ALOFT, I AM THE BEAST    … Expand
  4. Typickup
    Sep 15, 2019
    9
    Amazingly crushing album with a very interesting concept of biblical proportions. Well worth a listen if you want a unique experience.

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Metascore
88

Universal acclaim - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. The Wire
    Aug 9, 2019
    80
    An even deeper dig into the wound exposed on her debut. The album is drenched in divinity, its consideration of good and evil as polar concepts is biblical, elevating vengeance to a God-given imperative. Her classically trained voice deals in spiritual cadences, and commands gothic instrumentation of strings and drones. [Aug 2019, p.58]
  2. The Guardian
    Aug 5, 2019
    80
    Hayter is classically trained, and there is emotional as well as technical brilliance to the way she expands her vocal palette here.
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  3. The Quietus
    Aug 5, 2019
    80
    From start to finish, this album feels like an exposed wound, freshly – you might almost say studiously – picked and mastered to tape. It is an album of baroque intensity and gothic flamboyance played out like one long cathartic scream. Like an onion, it offers up layer after layer to slowly unpeel, each one a potential incitement to the very bitterest tears.
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