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- Record Label: Perpetual Flame Ministries
- Release Date: Oct 20, 2023
- Summary: The first full-length release from Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter (who retired her Lingua Ignota solo project) was recorded on a four-track-recorder and then degraded further by half-broken cassette players.
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- Record Label: Perpetual Flame Ministries
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Oct 20, 2023The result is an unspooled revelation, a supplicant’s distorted glee—a celebration which Hayter leaves pointedly open-ended.
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Oct 25, 2023The terror and helplessness that define the song’s first half takes a revelatory turn in its final leg, as the demons respond again to her cries for freedom.
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Oct 20, 2023Hayter fervently straddles a line between proclamation and judgment, venting and preaching, deliverance and elitism. She is, perhaps, lost and saved at the same time, again wielding paradoxes with grace and ferocity.
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UncutNov 13, 2023Saved! is powered by a sense of joyful rebirth. [Review of the Year 2023, p.29]
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Nov 29, 2023Hayter continues to traverse a biblical, deeply American landscape, surveying both its fire and brimstone and its transformative music. Saved! understands both of these qualities—consequently, rage, wonder, and beauty all churn just under its surface.
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Oct 20, 2023Whether or not this search is of genuine desire or some gesture toward a gaudy ecclesiastic aesthetic, Hayter's most recent attempt at salvation manifests in arguably the most afflicted and disconcerting peak into her head and heart yet.
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The WireDec 7, 2023It’s a startling new sound she has here, featuring voices of an unplaceable vintage, piano, bells and chains that carry centuries’ worth of dust and shadow, the songs a distorted and twisted take on gospel that’s sometimes slurred like a warped record, sometimes scarifyingly stark and always tightroping between redemptive faith and avant garde oddity. [Jan/Feb 2024, p.92]