It documents her attempt at salvation through religion, a topic featured heavily under her previous alias, Lingua Ignota.

[7] It signifies an "earnest attempt to achieve salvation" and comes across as an "apocalyptic revelation on the complex, sometimes ugly, always nonlinear process of healing".

wrote that "Kristin is in a different place", calling it "an album built on twisted folk-horror Americana that still features so much darkness and painful emotion, but also has a desperate hope to it that there is better to be found".

[11] Reviewing the album for Exclaim!, Kyle Kohner wrote that Hayter "toes the line between the horrifying hell still burning within and a hope-feigning religious euphoria" and while she "doesn't quite have the answers, [...] the quest is what drives the reverend to take up her cross with such fiery passion".

[10] John Amen of The Line of Best Fit found Hayter's "delivery is as anguished as ever, even if her perspective reflects a religious or teleological clarity.

[12] Annie Parnell of Paste summarized that "the result is an unspooled revelation, a supplicant's distorted glee—a celebration which Hayter leaves pointedly open-ended".