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. Jackson777
    Oct 7, 2021
    6
    Its important to start off by saying this album isn't for everyone. Assuming you know who Caligula was, you can expect some extremely edgy lyrical content relating to the singer's deep dive into carnal vices and feelings of rage. This album emanates the brutish desires and impulses of the lead singer, and to say it can be difficult to listen to for some people is an understatement. As youIts important to start off by saying this album isn't for everyone. Assuming you know who Caligula was, you can expect some extremely edgy lyrical content relating to the singer's deep dive into carnal vices and feelings of rage. This album emanates the brutish desires and impulses of the lead singer, and to say it can be difficult to listen to for some people is an understatement. As you progress through this album it becomes clearer that the product was not made for mass consumption, and Lingua Ignota's fanbase is more a niche audience, which many people including myself find intriguing. Steve Albini, one of the most important music critics of our time, said that there will always be a layer of fluff in the music scene in any generation that's nonsensical and lacking in meaning. But below this, as you dig deeper and deeper you can find more and more quality music from frankly obscure artists like Lingua Ignota who never intended her music to be for a larger audience. I enjoyed the production of the album and the brooding voice of Kristin Hayter. At its best it feels like crossing The Rubicon in ancient Rome, at its worst its a monologue about her feelings of depression and anger. Definitely a very ancient Roman vibe, almost as if she's playing a part venting feelings of isolation, rage, or despair. This very modern music project that deviates from norms in singing and production can be visceral, be forewarned. Its the antithesis to easy listening pop music. Revision: Album artwork is terrible, they must have been smoking something. She looks gross and is too pale. -2 points more points.… Expand

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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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