Radie Peat
Music
Radie Peat possesses a voice which has survived the dissolution of kingdoms and the burning of ancestral hearths, bearing within its cavernous depths the accumulated griefs and grim fidelities of an entire people. As vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of Lankum and a member of the darkly incandescent ensemble ØXN, Peat has become a custodian of the Irish song tradition, wielding her magnificent contralto with preternatural command to render each utterance as uncommon consequence. There is a deep and festering wealth of human experience concentrated in her phrasing: the anguish of abandoned women, the inexorable cruelties of circumstance, secret histories preserved in balladry, and the stubborn and frequently incendiary dignity of those whom respectable society would silence.
No Human Tongue Can Tell, by Radie Peat
No Human Tongue Can Tell, by Radie Peat