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Mappe Of Announces New LP and shares new single/video

July 9, 2025

Mappe Of Announces New LP Shares New Single + Video“A Scourge Laid Upon The Earth” Read Americana Highways, Psychedelic Baby and Folk n Rock Features Afterglades Out September 19th via Paper Bag Records   Today, Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist Tom Meikle—best known under his moniker Mappe Of—announces his forthcoming full-length record, Afterglades, arriving September 19 via Paper Bag Records. A sweeping experimental sci-fi-folk album, Afterglades is a meditation on the end of the world—and what it means to face it alongside the people you love. Alongside the announcement, Meikle shares the album’s third single, “A Scourge Laid Upon The Earth,” following previously released tracks “Happiness in the Singularity” and “Honeyhaze.” As the closing chapter in Afterglades’ narrative arc—a sci-fi exploration of a future where human society has collapsed—the track channels the cinematic weight of a final act in a survival epic. Told through the lens of a couple living out their last days in isolation at the edge of the earth, “Scourge” surges with a sense of raw intensity, a touch of mysticism, and a fierce, hard-won sense of hope. Meikle shares,  “This was the last song I wrote for the record. It felt like there needed to be a sense of weight to [Read More]