Molly Brodak.

Molly Brodak.

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Kristin Hayter (Lingua Ignota) on her song “I Who Bend the Tall Grasses”, from the 2021 record SINNER GET READY:

“This song is inspired by a poem by my friend Blake Butler's late wife, who passed away around the time I was writing this record. She's a poet named Molly Brodak, and the poem is called ‘Jesus’. I found it so striking and moving, and so the language of this track is very much indebted to that poem. It’s probably the most violent song on the record, and it also transitions out of the screaming stuff I’ve been doing for the last two years now. It’s like the last gasp of that for this record, and I believe we did it in one take.”