REVIEW: Saint Agnes - Your God Fearing Days Are About To Begin

“Committed”, “connective”, “control freaks” - all words used to describe London based SAINT AGNES, and aptly so given their self-made upward momentum over the last 8 years, carving out their space to create a sound that sets them entirely apart from anyone else. While they’ve successfully instilled their mark with their distinctive sound of raw industrial rhythms and arcane elegance, their purely raw energy and infectious body-moving beats, and their impassioned lyrics so many fans feel a deep affinity to, it feels like SAINT AGNES have merely been testing the waters in order to build up to their most honest and audacious work yet. That moment has finally arrived with the unveiling of their album Your God Fearing Days Are About To Begin.

Steadily releasing singles since the end of 2025 and performing unreleased tracks to those fortunate to see them supporting the likes of VUKOVI and ALT BLK ERA, SAINT AGNES have cultivated an album that fuses the best parts of their intense sound with their absolute grit and emotional breadth. Despite being self-confessed “control freaks”, the band handed the reins to renowned Jim Pinder (SLEEP TOKEN, BRING ME THE HORIZON), harnessing his mixing skills with their off-the-wall sounds. Their trust in Pinder and themselves has paid off in abundance, creating an album that tells a story per track as well as an undercurrent that speaks to the internal void inside the listener whilst also making you feel heard.

From the rising synths and plucked guitar strings on opening track Good Boy, a distorted crunchy bass rattling through, lead singer Kitty Austen’s rich and commanding voice breaks through speaking of the illusion of following the rules and being just another faceless sheep in a line. Drums and synths, courtesy of guitarist and programmer Jon James Tufnell, akin to composer Daniel Pemberton (Into/Across the Spiderverse, Project Hail Mary) propel The Ghost forward as it gradually builds to an industrial-metal melody, Kitty moving between guttural screams and cries of “I feel myself fading away” in a moment of raw vulnerability. The Father, The Son and The Holy Beast begins with a whisper of “I’m right here, don’t be scared”, but in such a hair-raising tone you feel nothing but fear as the rhythm shapeshifts between instruments and the drums change pace unexpectedly, climbing to distorted, visceral screams creating a sinister sound.

The Beast is one of the most vulnerable tracks on the album, delving into Kitty’s internal demons and how she gave herself entirely to ‘The Beast’, the track switching from pounding rhythms to stark, stripped-back piano, before plunging back into a gut-punching beat as the instruments ring around her emotionally charged, repeated words. Completely changing tack, Song For Mia has a gritty drum and synth track intro, building up to a dark and dirty beat that guarantees bodily movement of swaying and staccato motions. Everything You Denied keeps the pace with a constant frantic synth over Andrew Head’s rampant drumbeat and Tuffnell’s heavy guitar riffs, combining together into something gothic and refined as Kitty yells she “never needed you”.

Taking a more alt-rock approach to The Blood Beat (Angel in the Marble), the track is entirely relentless in its racing drums and searing guitar riffs, the lyrics possessive and deceiving, leaving you wondering if this is the Beast singing to the void or SAINT AGNES singing to you the listener as it proclaims “you belong to me”, the ending falling into melancholy piano and strings, “I am a god” echoing maniacally in the background. Gods of War hauls in instrument and vocals one at a time, for a moment threatening an overwhelming cacophony before it fades back into bass and snare and Kitty singing gently how we don’t need the Gods of war - it’s not SAINT AGNES without a sudden musical punch, the breakdown delivering a sound that feels like a mouthful of loosened teeth. With a frantically rapid punk-like opener, Get Them Out is a hopeful, uplifting message about seeing yourself the way others do wrapped in a ferocious sound that feels like a pep talk being screamed in your face.

Where Do I Begin? closes the album out with a plinky music-box tune, a menacing synth raging behind it, everything suddenly falling away to pure piano and Kitty’s heart-wrenching lyrics of “without you, I am nothing” - the track builds and falls, the only constant the exposed lyrics and sombre tone, fading to the nothing Kitty worries she’ll become. When you’re not feeling the weight of the lyrics you’re throwing yourself round unrestrained to the charged beats akin to POPPY and NINE INCH NAILS. Your God Fearing Days Are About To Begin is a sound that conforms to a multitude of fans and fits any stage, whether it’s in a club, venue, or your own mind.

Score: 9/10 Your God Fearing Days Are About To Begin will be released on 29th May 2026 via Spinefarm. Words: Julia Stark

Photos: Jesse Rose