MAPPE OF

Afterglades, the new full-length record from Toronto artist Mappe Of (AKA Tom Meikle) due out on May 23 on Paper Bag Records, is an experimental sci-fi-folk record about reckoning with the end of the world alongside the people you love. Blue and orange hues permeate the aesthetic, along with decaying archways, antiquated technology, and overgrown greenhouses. Lost transmissions echo across desolate landscapes. Remains of the digital world distort the fabric of reality. Still, there are glimmers of light, ethereal beings floating above the earth. There is still hope left in the world at the end. 

Recorded with Will Crann primarily at Catherine North Studios in Hamilton as well as at Yellow House Studio, Family Farm, and in Meikle’s own basement, Afterglades is “a sci-fi-inspired exploration of a potential future in which human society has been rendered obsolete, viewed through the lens of a couple living out their final days in isolation at the edge of the earth,” explains Meikle: “It’s about human legacy, memory, reckoning with technology, and what love looks like at the end of the world.” This is rustic, half-digitized avant-folk (folktronica, perhaps?) in the vein of classic songwriters and genre provocateurs like Blake Mills, Bon Iver, Talk Talk, and Oneohtrix Point Never, and visual artists like John Harris, Tuco Amalfi, and Simon Stalenhag. It’s cinematic, rootsy, and pastoral as often as it is glitchy, erratic, and warped, spanning a magnificent audio narrative. 

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