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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

FORPE Presents: The Silent Ballet’s Top 100 Albums of 2016 – 40-31

 

40) Ulrich Shnauss | No Futher Ahead than Today

Germany

 

Scripted Realities

39) Gareth Coker | Ori and the Blind Forest

United States


Microsoft Studios

38) Alaskan Tapes | Beyond the Streets

Canada

Self-Released

37) Julianna Barwick | Will

United States

Dead Oceans

36) Robot Koch + Savannah Jo Lack | Particle Fields

Germany

 

Trees and Cyborgs

35) The Range | Potential

United States

Domino

34) Kenneth James Gibson | The Evening Falls

United States

Kompakt

33) Ben Chatwin | Heat & Entropy

England

Ba Da Bing!

32) Roger Goula | Overview Effect

England

Cognitive Shift

31) 1 Mile North | Awakened by Decay

United States

Wortcunner

FORPE Presents: The Silent Ballet’s Top 100 Albums of 2016 – 50-41

 

50) Roly Porter | Third Law

England

Tri Angle

49) Drombeg | Earthworks

Ireland

Future Sequence

48) Manos Milonakis | Solfar

Greece

 

Self-Released

47) Numenorean | Home
Canada


Season of Mist

46) 65daysofstatic | No Man’s Sky

England

Hello Games

45) Christopher Tignor | Along a Vanishing Plane

United States

Western Vinyl

44) Takahiro Kido | The New World

Japan

Ricco

43) Niklas Paschburg | Tuur Mang Welten

Germany

Unperceived Records

42) Eus | Luminar
Costa Rica

Soft Recordings

41) Ian William Craig | Centres

Canada

Fat Cat

FORPE Presents: The Silent Ballet’s Top 100 Albums of 2016: 60-51

60) Three Trapped Tigers | Silent Earthling

England

Superball Music

59) Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie | Salero

United States

Erased Tapes

58) The Seven Mile Journey | Templates for Mimesis

Denmark

Dunk! Records

57) Linear Bells| This is a New World
France

 

Self-Released

56) Explosions in the Sky | The Wilderness

United States

Temporary Residence

55) Lapsihymy | Dreams Take Over Everything

Finland

Self-Released

54) Garth Stevensen | Voyage

United States

Self-Released

53) Marihiko Hara and Polar M | Dance

Japan

mu-nest

52) Ironomi | Niji

Japan

Kitchen Label

51) The Caretaker | Everywhere at the End of Time

England

History Always Favors the Winners

FORPE PRESENTS: The Silent Ballet’s Top 100 Albums of 2016 – 70-61

 

70) Kyle Preston | Scattered Silence

United States

 

Self-Released

69) Tides from Nebula | Safehaven

Poland

Mystic Production

68) Levi Patel + Suren Unka | 5/8

New Zealand

Marigold Music

67) Machinedrum | Human Energy

United States

Ninja Tune

66) Robin Buyer Sextet | Leave

United States

 

Odd Gifts

65) Dead Light | Dead Light

England

Village Green

64) The Mercury Program | New Myths

United States

Lovitt Records

63) Tim Hecker | Love Streams

Canada

4AD

80) The Eye of Time| Myth I: A Last Dance for the Things We Love

France

Denovali

61) Petrels | Jord

England

Denovali