After a string of singles energising buzz around the project, Rona Mac’s captivating new album Honeymilk and Heavy Weather has been unveiled, showcasing her unique creativity and unparalleled emotional depth. Four years on from her debut album Sheelah, the project is fuelled by a lifetime’s worth of personal growth and artistic development. As Rona blends alternative folk, Americana and pop, she explores friendship, grief, personal struggle and reflection, stemming from a challenging period in her life.
Rona’s DIY ethos is also on show, recorded in her caravan studio and funded through the PRS Foundation, Help Musicians, and Horizons Launchpad, the album is completely independent. Using the profits from her vinyl release to support local charities, and embarking on a tour of under-appreciated venues across the country, Rona is an artist’s artist.
Commenting on the album’s features of her friend Emily, whose friendship inspired a lot of the themes across the album, Rona adds, “Throughout the album there are scattered recordings of voice notes and spoken word pieces that she sent me over the years, varying from her sing-song happy voice, to the deep-chested voice of a woman carrying a world of pain. It was a big decision to share these with listeners, but in the context of the album as a whole it would feel incomplete without her husk in there.”
The proudly queer songwriter has held continued support but carves out her own space within the world of music.