Tom Meikle, the Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist behind Mappe Of, returns with ‘Honeyhaze,’ a hushed and devastating meditation on love at the edge of collapse.

Imagine two people wrapped in the kind of affection that exists beyond panic or pretense, quietly boiling water for tea while the radio reports the end of days. That’s the emotional terrain ‘Honeyhaze’ walks—one where vulnerability becomes a kind of salvation.

“This track is about a couple, living in an idyllic setting, but reckoning with the knowledge that the end is nigh, as the world falls apart around them…” Meikle shares. “Tried to love you like the world was dying.”

Sparse and spectral, the song floats on gentle fingerpicking and Meikle’s falsetto, unfolding like a love letter left behind in an empty cabin. It’s not a typical love song—it’s one that feels like it had to be written.

The accompanying video, directed and edited by Meikle’s wife Milly and shot by Meikle himself, leans into that same sense of last-light intimacy. Captured on VHS camcorder for maximum nostalgia bleed, the footage shows the couple surrounded by wide skies and waving fields, a gentle counterpoint to the song’s quiet ache. Deer bound freely through golden light. Wind ripples through long grass. It’s a vision of the world as it could be, if we loved like it was ending.

“We wanted to capture a home-video nostalgia… a visual love letter from the future that feels like it came from the past,” Meikle says.

‘Honeyhaze’ doesn’t shout its message—it drifts like smoke from a late-night fire, a reminder that even in decay, there can be softness, connection, and meaning. In a world full of noise, Mappe Of continues to whisper truths that hit deep.

Headline photo: Vanessa Heins

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