Kristin Hayter's new album as Lingua Ignota, Sinner Get Ready, is due out on August 6 via Sargent House, and she's shared a new single from it, "Perpetual Flame of Centralia." Like the first single, "Pennsylvania Furnace," it's a stark, minimal, haunting track, and the accompanying video, shot by Emily Birds, is a collaboration with fashion designer Ashley Rose Couture.
"I first saw Ashley’s work long before I was able to wear it, and it spoke to me as a longtime fan of the aesthetics and theory of fashion," Kristin says. "Her designs transform the wearer into something outside themselves, armor that allows one to embody fantasy or nightmare. Working collaboratively with Ashley has been a dream, I have been able to explore the ideas of my record with wearable art. I chose to wear her mask on the cover of SINNER GET READY because it held the sharp dichotomy of my music; it was chaste and erotic, exquisite and grotesque. For the 'PERPETUAL FLAME OF CENTRALIA' video, the expressive capacity of her garments are meditated upon in juxtaposition to the stark, desolate quality of my song. It is the material vs. the immaterial, and the result is languid and dreamy and wonderfully claustrophobic."