Album review: Fatima Mansions' debut record, Against Nature, finally available to stream 

Originally released by Cork singer Cathal Coughlan and his cohorts in 1989, Against Nature has only just made the jump to the digital age. It was worth waiting for... 

Cathal Coughlan, Fatima Mansions.

So thoroughly has streaming re-configured the music industry, an artist’s absence from Spotify and rival platforms can have the effect of erasing their existence. That has regrettably been the case with Cathal Coughlan’s 1990s art-punks Fatima Mansions, who have faded from view amid a long-running rights dispute that has kept their catalogue out of sight and, alas, somewhat out of mind.

Things now seems to have reached a resolution with Coughlan, London-based and from Glounthaune in East Cork, announcing on Twitter a roll-out of “several streaming reissues”. The first is already with us in the exquisite form of the Mansions’ 1989 debut Against Nature.