Rodney Owl - Loneliness Is Contagious (2026)

The third album from Rodney Owl, the recording name of songwriter Mark McConville, a Lurgan, Co. Armagh native based in Galway since the late 1990s. Following Truth Is Broken (2023) , Loneliness Is Contagious is a warm, folksy and literate set of guitar-picked songs, a sound that has drawn comparisons to Lambchop, early R.E.M. and Nick Drake. Recorded at Night Owl Studios in Galway and reckoning with immortality, memory, grief and speaking your own mind, it arrives with a pointed stance.