Lankum’s Radie Peat announces debut solo album ‘No Human Tongue Can Tell’ with stirring new single ‘The Moon and Stars’

Lankum vocalist Radie Peat has announced her debut solo album ‘No Human Tongue Can Tell’ and released a haunting new single ‘The Moon and Stars’. Listen below. READ MORE: Lankum: “This generation of Irish artists have a confidence to stand up and be themselves” Back in July, Peat shared her first solo single ‘Still I Love Him’, her poignant interpretation of the traditional love song of the same name. Now, she’s revealed that the track will be on her debut solo album, which is due to be released on November 13 via Rough Trade Records. You can pre-save/pre-order it here. The announcement comes alongside a new single, ‘The Moon and Stars’, which sees her rewrite parts of traditional folk lyrics to channel anger. “There are coded references to unwanted pregnancies and abortions within the song”, Peat explained in a press release. “As well as references to rue, a herb which was used to cause miscarriage, I wanted to represent these experiences from the woman’s perspective – to connect us with her experience”. Listen below. Peat describes the album as “communicating hundreds of years of other people’s experiences, that have been absorbed into the songs from generations and generations b...