Noise can be cathartic. For Kristin Hayter, noise can even be a form of salvation. Caligula, Hayter’s latest album — released under the name Lingua Ignota — serves as a punishing retribution. To listen to this cacophonous symphony is to be indoctrinated into a new, outré brand of self-care and feminism, to harvest wrong-doing as power, to confront evil with an equally malicious means, leaving the earth scorched in the rearview. This is a big undertaking, a bold defiance of…
