1) Blanck Mass – Animated Violence Mild
2) Anoice – Ghost in the Clocks
3) Richard Luke – Glass Island
4) Autonomy – Prologue
5) Square Peg Round Role – Branches
6) Conor Walsh – The Lucid
7) Big Brave – A Gaze Among Them
8) Berlinist – Gris OST
9) Ed Carlsen – Morning Hour
10) Wander – March
The Silent Ballet’s Top 50 Tracks of 2019
1) Niklas Paschburg – Blooming (In C Minor) [Extended Version]
2) Anoice – Rebirth
3) Blanck Mass – House vs House
4) Richard Luke – Eich Bhana
5) Holly Herndon – Eternal
6) Harnes Kretzer – Agen$
7) Autonomy – Not the End
8) Wander – March
9) Anamanaguchi – Air on Line
10) Slow Meadow – Artificial Algorithm
11) Daughter – Poke
12) Bill Laurence – Cassini
13) The Ascent of Everest – Aimless
14) Rone – Motion III
15) Mono – Sorrow
16) Carlos Cipa – Senna’s Joy
17) Lena Raine – Beyond the Heart
18) Paul Saunderson – Drifts
19) Big Brave – Muted Shifting of Space
20) Maythem Mahbouli – Catching the First Moment
21) Anna Meredith – Sawbones
22) Jambinai – Sawtooth
23) Carpenter Brut – Hush, Sally, Hush!
24) GoGo Penguin – Time-Lapse City
25) Bicurious – I Don’t Do Drugs, I Jus Sweat a Lot
26) Square Peg Round Hole – Fever Dream
27) Petrels – The Hermet King
28) AVA – Mulholland
29) Luca D’Alberto – Horizon
30) Spotlighs – Continue the Capsize
31) Ilya Beshevli – Dissonance
32) Ed Carlsen – Yearn
33) Caterina Barbieri – Fanas
34) Erki Parnoja – Eha
35) Raphaelle Thibaut – 8:00 PM
36) Russian Circles – Milano
37) 2080 – Toco Toco
38) I am Waiting for You Last Summer – In Circles
39) Pye Corner Audio – Hallow Earth
40) Cold, Cold Heart – Katie, My Queen
41) Ryan Teague – Recursive Iterations II
42) Monkey3 – Mass
43) Holm – Through Windows
44) Jakub Zytecki – Sunflower
45) Himmelsrandt – Nacht-Leben
46) William Ryan Fritch – To Ache for What’s Never Been
47) Wang Wen – Endless
48) Often the Thinker – Choking, Warming, Stifling
49) Yusuke Tsutsumi – Memorial Beach
50) Steven Guthienz – Aerial
The Silent Ballet’s Top 50 Tracks of 2018
1) Rhian Sheehan – Between Us and the Dying Star
2) Luca D’alberto – Consequences
3) Kaada – Farewell
4) El Ten Eleven – Phenomenal Problems
5) Peter Broderick – Techno for Lemurs
6) World’s End Girlfriend – Meguri
7) Lena Raine – Resurrections
8) Matt Dunkley – Cycle 9
9) The Eye of Time – Foldings
10) Marika Takeuchi – Roots
11) Haiku Salut – Cold to Crack the Stones
12) Mogwai – Kin
13) Foxhole – After the Walk
14) Jean Michel-Blais – A Heartbeat Away
15) Ilya Beshevli – Déjà Vu
16) GoGo Penguin – Bardo
17) Whale Fall – Holartica
18) by Gunnarson – Granada
19) Spurv – Fra Dypet under Stenen
20) Son Lux – All Directions
21) Slow Meadow – We’re Losing the Moon
22) This Will Destroy You – Weeping Widow
23) Odesza – Loyal
24) Richard J. Birkin/Haiku Salut – All was Calm, All was Bright
25) Hammock – Cliffside
26) Luke Howard – Bear Story II
27) Michael Price – Quarry Bank
28) Young Collective – Rivers
29) Dardust – Sublime
30) Arms and Sleepers – Be This Way (ft Steffallo)
31) Felix Rauber – Between the Lines
32) Henrik Schwarz – Gygylili
33) Feed Me to the Waves – The Permian
34) Hiatus – Youth
35) Lapsihymy – Wonder
36) I am Waiting for You Last Summer – The Great Escape
37) Leech – Melide
38) Jordan Critz – Infinite
39) Floex + Tom Hodge – Prelude I
40) Anna Meredith – Calion
41) Blackbird Blackbird – Underneath it All
42) Kyle Bobby Dunn – The Searchers
43) Sebastian Plano – Purples
44) Yann Tiersen/Anna von Hauswolff – Koad
45) The New Law – Sang Noir and the Nightbringer
46) Schnellertollermeier – Rights
47) Solomon Grey – Departed
48) Autonomy – Glow
49) Steven Gutheinz – Overlander
50) Iskra strings – Arashiyama
The Silent Ballet’s Top 100 Albums of 2018
1) Hannah Epperson – Slowdown
2) Rhian Sheehan – A Quiet Divide
3) The Eye of Time – Myth II: A Need to Survive
4) Marika Takeuchi – Melding
5) Foxhole – Well Kept Thing
6) GoGo Penguin – A Hudrum Star
7) Matt Dunkley – Cycles 7-16
8) Lena Raine – Celeste OST
9) Spurv – Myra
10) Poppy Ackroyd – Resolve
The Silent Ballet’s Top 50 Tracks of 2017
1) Do Make Say Think – Bound (And Boundless)
2) daughter – a hole in the earth
3) blanck mass – the rat
4) peter broderick – a ride on the bosphorus
5) hammock – mysterium
6) dardust – lost and found
7) luca d’alberto – Wait for Me
8) My Education – Open Marriages (Knifefight remix)
9) david maxim micic – 687 days
10) of decay and sublime – parhelion
11) laake – melancholia
12) Odesza – Line of Sight
13) Public Service Broadcasting – They Gave me a Lamp
14) abby gunderson – light in between
15) penguin café – cantorum
16) Hiatus – Fiction
17) four tet – scientists
18) holy fuck – chains
19) sophie hutchings – north northwest
20) Lights & Motion – Everest
21) Lowercase Noises – A Course of Stengthening Medicines
22) lusine – just a cloud
23) Levi Patel – Since Last Letters
24) slow meadow – lamellophone and the gulf of mexico
25) nathan fake – you are here (ten year mix)
26) hidden orchestra – stone
27) jean-michel blais – hypocrite
28) max cooper – four tone reflection
29) Grails – Deeper Politics
30) kamasi washington – knowledge
31) And so I watch you from afar – a slow unfolding of wings
32) emancipator – ghost pong (track)
33) Gallops – Pale Force
34) sun glitters – from Saturday to Sunday
35) pick a piper – nikko
36) jlin – holy child
37) iiah – kintsugi
38) matt emery – empire
39) john m and jay auborn – some vapour
40) Cathedral Ring – Intravenous Hibernation
41) aesthesys – marie cresente (track)
42) Alpha Male Tea Party – Ballerina
43) Hauschka – Constant growth fails
44) kiamos – blurred
45) madelaine cocolas – aphelion
46) the comet is coming – full eclipse
47) sin fang — love will leave you cold
48) william roud – supernovas
49) brooklyn comatose – reich mode
50) pillars – momento in b
The Silent Ballet’s Top 100 Albums of 2017
1) Hammock – Mysterium
2) Luca D’Alberto – Endless
3) Daughter – Music from Before The Storm
4) Leah Kardos – Rococochet
5) Blanck Mass – World Eater
6) Slow Meadow – Costero
7) Peter Broderick – All Together Again
8) Matt Emery – Empire
9) Penguin Cafe – The Imperfect Sea
10) Sophie Hutchings – Yonder
11) Do Make Say Think – Stubborn Persistent Illusions
12) John Matthias and Jay Auborn – Race to Zero
13) Balmorhea – Clear Language
14) Iglooghost – Neo Wax Bloom
15) Levi Patel – Affinity
16) Portico Quartet – Art in the Age of Automation
17) Christoph Berg – Conversations
18) The Physics House Band – Mercury Fountain
19) Valgiers Sigurdsson – Dissonance
20) William Ryan Fritch – The Sum of its Parts
21) Tom Hobden and Eliot James – Roam
22) Derek Hunter Wilson – Travelogue
23) Ben Lukas Boysen and Sebastian Plano – Everything
24) Minor Victories – Orchestral Variations
25) Gas – Narkopop
26) Lawrence English – Cruel Optimism
27) Odesza – A Moment Apart
28) Gallops – Bronze Mystic
29) Gideon Wolf – Year Zero
30) Noveller – A Pink Sunset for No One
31) Tracey Chattaway – Secret Garden
32) Hans Zimmer – Dunkirk OST
33) Ben Frost – The Centre Cannot Hold
34) David Maxim Micic – Who Bit the Moon
35) Sun Glitters – It Will be Forever
36) Chelsea Wolfe – Hiss Spun
37) And So I Watch You From Afar – The Endless Shimmering
38) Cam Butler – Find Your Love
39) Ed Carlsen – Elusive Frames
40) Lowercase Noises – The Swiss Illness
41) From the Mouth of the Sun – Hymn Binding
42) The Greatest Hoax – Expiration Compositions
43) Notilus – Notilus
44) Sarah Davachi – All My Circles Run
45) Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein – Stranger Things 2
46) Kyle Preston – Geo
47) Kamasi Washington – Harmony of Difference
48) Rafael Anton Irisarri – The Shameless Years
49) Sven Laux – Paper Streets
50) The Kraken Quartet – Separate | Migrate
51) Dialects – Because Your Path is Unlike Any Other
52) My Education – Schiphol
53) Forest Swords – Compassion
54) Soft Error – Mechanism
55) Braveyoung – Misery and Pride
56) Lights & Motion – Dear Avalanche
57) Indian Wells – Where the World Ends
58) Hidden Orchestra – Dawn Chorus
59) Hiatus – All the Troubled Hearts
60) Jason van Wyk – Opacity
61) George Will – Dawn
62) Mark John McEncroe – Dark Clouds in Life
63) Earthen Sea – An Act of Love
64) Swarms – Black Chapel Sun
65) A-Sun Amissa – The Gatherer
66) Astrid and Rachel Grimes – Through the Sparkle
67) Shipwrecks – Shipwrecks
68) Hior Chronik – Out of the Dust
69) Lorenzo Mosotto – White Materials
70) Mogwai – Every Country’s Sun
71) Throwing Snow – Embers
72) I/O – Anyone, Anywhere
73) Clint Mansell – Loving Vincent OST
74) Thomas William Hill – Asylum for Eve
75) The Comet is Coming – Death to the Planet
76) Kid Koala – Music to Draw To: Satellite
77) This Patch of Sky – These Small Spaces
78) Solomon Gray – The Last Post OST
79) Orellana – Bedroom Ghosts
80) Sleepmakeswaves – Made of Breath Only
81) Ceeys – Concrete Fields
82) Irving Park – 3 5 1
83) Cathedral Ring – A Decade Alone on the Alps
84) Il:lo – Vega
85) Unwed Sailor – Take a Minute
86) Mikael Lind – Sounds that Escaped
87) Roger Goula – Inspector George Gently OST
88) Cicada – White Forest
89) Black Swan – Travesty Waves
90) Whyoceans – Inmost Den of Emilie
91) Lav + Purl – A State of Becoming
92) Stumbleine – Static Bloom
93) Stafraenn Hakon – Hausi
94) When Icarus Falls – Resilience
95) Philip G Anderson – Winter
96) A Cerulean State – Omgjord
97) Cid Rim – Material
98) Celadon City – Somehow We Will Get Through This
99) Myriad Drone – Myriad Drone
100) Swan Theif – II
FORPE Presents: The Silent Ballet’s Top 50 Tracks of 2016
50 – Super Magic Hats – Because of You
49 – Amulets – Sierra Highs
48 – Nonkeen – Ceramic People
47 – m83 – Go
46 – Tangents – Oberon
45 – Olafur and Nann Bryndis Hilmar – particles
44 – Seven Mile Journey – casualities
43 – Jean-Michel Blais – nostos
42 – Jakob Pavek – hello montevideo
41 – Garth Stevenson – voyage
40 – Havenaire – Holy Hell
39 – Floating Points – Kuiper
38 – Roger Goula – Awe
37 – Wander – Soar
36 – Other Mountains – If Only
35 – Oliver Tank – Swerve
34 – Kenneth James Gibson – Poured Silently Upon You
33 – Tides from Nebula – Lifter
32 – Matt Dunkley – Cycle 2
31 – Daniel Wohl – Holographic
30 – Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – A New Day
29 – Hauschka – Late Summer
28 – Antonymes – Towards Tragedy and Dissolution
27 – Ed Carlsen – Cage
26 – Lucy Claire – Kawaita Tsuki / The Barren Moon (Will Samson Remix)
25 – Himmelsrandt – VI
24 – Hidden Orchestra – Wingbeats
23 – Polar Dream – Totem (en vivo)
22 – Mikael Lind – Intentions and Variations
21 – Slow Meadow – Lachrymosia
20 – Pray for Sound – I’ve Seen Hell and it’s White
19 – Explosions in the Sky – Disintegration Anxiety
18 – Blueneck – Ghosts
17 – Gogo Penguin – Protest
16 – Blanck Mass – d7-d5
15 – Vasa – Burst
14 – Manos Milonakis – Toward the Setting Sun
13 – Pg.lost – Monolith
12 – Anna Meredith – R-type
11 – William Ryan Fritch – Vantage Point
10 – Overhead the Albatross – Daeku
9 – Tycho – Horizon
8 – World’s End Girlfriend – Flowers of Romance
7 – Caspian – Castles High, Marble Bright
6 – The Range – Florida
5 – Fragments – Off the Map
4 – Kashiwa Daisuke – City in the Lake
3 – Hammock – We Could Have Been Beautiful Again
2 – Square Peg Round Hole – A Frame
1 – Johann Johannsson – Flight from the City
FORPE Presents: The Silent Ballet’s Top 100 Albums of 2016 – 10-1
10) Niechec | Niechec
Poland
Audio Cave
9) Jean-Michel Blais | Il
Canada
Arts & Crafts
8) Fragments | Imaginary Seas
France
Patchrock
7) Matt Dunkley | Six Cycles
England
Village Green
6) Richard J. Birkin | Vigils
France
Reveal Records
5) Blueneck | The Outpost
England
Denovali
4) Jherek Bischoff| Cistern
England
Leaf Label
3) Square Peg Round Hole | Juniper
United States
Spartan
2) Johann Johannsson | Orphee
Iceland
Deutsche Grammofon
1) GoGo Penguin | Man Made Object
England
Decca
FORPE Presents: The Silent Ballet’s Top 100 Albums of 2016 – 20-11
20) Tilman Robinson | Deer Heart
Australia
Hobbledehoy
19) World’s End Girlfriend | Last Waltz
Japan
Virgin Bablyon
18) Kashiwa Daisuke | Program Music II
Japan
Virgin Babylon
17) Hammock | Everything and Nothing
United States
Self-Released
16) Overhead, the Albatross | Learning to Growl
Ireland
Self-Released
15) Himmelsrandt | Schneeland
Germany
Unperceived Records
14) Eluvium | False Readings On
United States
Temporary Residence
13) Pg.lost | Versus
Sweden
Pelagic Records
12) William Ryan Fritch | New Words for Old Wounds
United States
Lost Tribe Sound
11) Sophie Hutchings | Wide Asleep
Australia
Preservation
FORPE Presents: The Silent Ballet’s Top 100 Albums of 2016 – 30-21
30) Mesozoic | We Create Because All Will End
Australia
Self-Released
29) Antonymes | (For Now We See) Through a Glass Dimly
England
Hidden Shoal
28) Manatees | Helvellyn
England
Shels Music
27) Abel Korzeniowski | Nocturnal Animals OST
Poland
Back Lot
26) Christine Ott | Only Silence Remains
France
Gizeh
25) Tycho | Epoch
United States
Ghostly International
24) Davis Harwell | We Came from the Dust
United States
Self-Released
23) Frida Johansson + Henrik Oja | Unravel OST
Sweden
EA Games
22) Pray for Sound | Everything is Beautiful
United States
Self-Released
21) Anna Meredith | Varmints
England
Moshi Moshi