Mappe Of releases new single that isn’t

Mappe Of, photo by Vanessa Heins

Putting the whole PR here because well, this is way more than just a song. And Mappe Of is way more than just a musician to wit.

“Mappe Of, is the immersive and inspiring work of multi-disciplinary, multi-instrumentalist and musical visionary, Tom Meikle. Well known for his 2017 debut album, A Northern Star, A Perfect Stone, which established him as a creative, experimental force in the avant-folk world, he followed it up with the 2019 full-length, The Isle of Ailynn, revealing even further acclaimed expansion of his sonic world. 

With a brand new track, “Happiness In The Singularity,” released today via Paper Bag Records, Mappe Of is stepping into the post-apocalyptic musical space. Within the modern tradition of post-apocalyptic art—perhaps even post-earth-as-we-know-it art— definitely post-pandemic - there's an increasingly tangible feeling like these works are no longer fictitious, but are instead a very real and present depiction of our lives on this planet. And yet, these works are most often defined by hope, and resilience, comradery, and faith. They pose to us, one of the most difficult questions we can face: Can we continue in the face of oblivion?

“Happiness in the Singularity” is a cyborg of a song, marrying pieces of the real with the ethereal in a shimmering, stuttering-then-smooth 7/8 waltz through a graveyard of VHS memories and corrupted .mp4 files. Theres a piano part playing counter to the artificial pings and clicks that swirl around—it feels as if one is in an existential behind-the-scenes control room. With the song, Mappe Of is imploring us to preserve our sanity and ourselves.”

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