“Tell me something beautiful and really make me feel it“. That haunting refrain at the heart of ‘Tomato Song’ is something that meka achieves within mere heartbeats of first hearing her resplendent vocals. A charming vignette of a little house in a canyon, vividly painted by an achingly gorgeous voice reminiscent of the golden age of singer/songwriters – safe to say I was hooked within the first couple of lines. The bittersweet balladry that follows only served to deepen the love instilled in me by that bewitching opening. Interweaving fond memories of her mother gardening with more abstract flashes of introspective melancholy, the track feels like a rumination on how the darkness swirling within and the beauty around us can overlap and leave a mark on each other. How an idyllic moment may have sadness hiding in its shadows, and how even the deepest depths of brooding may still allow light to shine in through the cracks. In the nostalgic, sepia-toned sounds of ‘Tomato Song’, meka delivers an ode to the hazy border between dreams and reality, beauty and sorrow, meaning and emptiness, and rarely has the in-between sounded quite this entrancing.