
The Portuguese artist Rafael Toral has been making expansive guitar-drone music since the mid-’90s. Last year, he released Spectral Evolution, his return to the guitar after years spent inventing his own instruments. Our genre specialist Christopher R. Weingarten chose that record as the best experimental album of 2024. Now, Toral has followed that record with the new single “Layers,” a six-minute drone track meant to be performed live.