Former MICRODISNEY and FATIMA MANSIONS frontman CATHAL COUGHLAN is back with his first new album in more than a decade.
The Cork singer-songwriter is trailing the release with a video for the brooding, nightmarish 'Owl In The Parlour'.
His sixth solo album, Song Of Co-Aklan comprises 12 new original songs and features guest appearances from friends and former bandmates including Sean O' Hagan, Jon Fell and John Bennett (Microdisney/High Llamas), Luke Haines (Auteurs/Black Box Recorder), Rhodri Marsden (Scritti Politti), Aindrías Ó Gruama (Fatima Mansions), Cory Gray (The Delines) and Dublin singer-songwriter Eileen Gogan.
Coughlan formed Microdisney with O'Hagan in 1980, forming Fatima Mansions after their dissolution in 1988. In recent years he's maintained with his solo career as well as collaborating with Blixa Bargeld, Ute Lemper and Gavin Friday on Change The World, a reimagining of the works of Bertold Brecht at Dublin's National Concert Hall. This year will see the results of his partnership with producer and musician Jacknife Lee under the name Telefis.
Set for release on 26 March through Dimple Discs, Song Of Co-Aklan is available to pre-order here.