With the release of The House of Ill Repute; Galway-born torch singer Mary Coughlan emerges from the catharsis of record making, waking up to a new day; confident in the knowledge that she has produced an album which will stand up as one of the very best of her stellar career to date.

Over the course of nine studio albums, two live albums and countless concert performances in the past twenty-five years, Mary Coughlan has established herself as one of her native land's most enduring and remarkable vocal talents.

She has cast her meditative eye over songs of joy, sadness, mischief and melancholy; and has delivered each one with a voice that effortlessly straddles jazz, blues, chanson and pop in equal, sublime measure.

Mary embarks on the next phase of her career with an extraordinary new album.

The House of Ill Repute's 13 songs represent the end of a thirteen year relationship in Mary's life.

The first single is the late Kirsty MacColl's wry discourse on misadventure Bad, an early highlight of an album that runs the gamut of emotions like a long night of Reeperbahn madness.

Flirtatious on Love Is Extra, salacious on Pornography, outrageous on Tootsies; Madame Coughlan knows the intimate details of all the visitors to The House of Ill Repute. And in the cold light of the morning, we find them adrift on the emotional tundra of Antarctica or clinging to the barren (Celtic) rock of The Whore Of Babylon.

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