Lingua Ignota – “Katie Cruel”

Kristin Hayter’s recent Lingua Ignota album Sinner Get Ready was inspired by part in traditional Appalachian folk music. And today, for the first Bandcamp Friday of 2022, Hayter is back with a new rendition of the traditional American folk song “Katie Cruel,” perhaps most famously recorded by Karen Dalton in 1971. Lingua Ignota’s take on it is heavy, operatic, and intense, built atop ominously plodding piano chords, and you can listen to it below.