Racoon

Toral is a master of the drone—his Wave Field and Cyclorama Lift pieces are indispensible—but he is also a masterful self-reinventor, revising or deeping his palette of choice from one album to the next. The palette for the five Electric Babyland tracks on this disc—processed music-box—is a new one for Toral but he makes characteristic magic from it. Then he follows these with the three Lullabies pieces, which pair up the music box textures with the sparse guitar melodies and ambient hum which are foundational to some of Toral’s other (exemplary) work.