released on Accurate Records. In 2000, The Last Command, Underworld, and finally The Complete Score for Metropolis were self-released. In addition to publishing scores for silent film releases, the group also recorded a number of CDs of their film music. The first was New Music for Silent Films through Accurate Records. It was followed in 1995 by the album Lonesome, which appeared through BIB Records. The collection Silents from 1997 brought together the contemporary scores for the films Plain Crazy, The Lost World, Nosferatu, Metropolis, and The Unknown. Slapstick Masters, music for 4 short silent comedies, was then released on Accurate Records. The Last Command, Underworld, and finally The Complete Score for Metropolis were self released. Entertainment Weekly put the ensemble on its list of the 100 most creative people or groupings in the entertainment world. Terry Gross on National Public Radio called the trio "one of the pioneers in composing new music for old movies" and Lloyd Schwartz discussed their recording of scores to a pair of Buster Keaton films: "Most silent movie music just fills the void. Some of it even gets in the way. But the Alloy Orchestra really helps us see what we're watching and often the music, whether driving or fanciful, is worth listening to on its own." In addition to their work on silent films, Alloy Orchestra composed music for contemporary films, including Fast, Cheap & Out of Control by Errol Morris, Dragonflies, the Baby Cries by Jane Gillooly and Vakvagany by Ben Meade. In 2014 a recording of the music for the film Man with a Movie Camera was released on double vinyl by Third Man Records. Membership Ken Winokur - Director, percussion, clarinet Terry Donahue - Percussion, accordion, musical saw Roger C. Miller - Keyboard Caleb Sampson - Keyboards Critical reception Anne Midgette of The New York Times said the orchestra was "fast becoming the country's leading avant-garde interpreter of silent films." She noted that the group had been producing at least one score yearly since 1991, and that Blackmail "showed it to have the ideal qualities one hopes for in a fusion of elements: attractiveness combined with endurance". Roger Ebert called Alloy Orchestra "the best in the world at accompanying silent films". A reviewer in The Georgia Straight wrote that the orchestra "has scored almost 30 silent films, crafting a unique sonic signature for each", while Kenneth Turan of The Los