Essential (studio album) by Soulwax
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Essential is ranked 6th best out of 9 albums by Soulwax on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Soulwax is Much Against Everyone's Advice which is ranked number 4085 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 352.
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Essential track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Essential rankings
All 5 charts that this album appears in:
Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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2024 | Tuur | Top 8 Music Albums of 2018 | 5/8 | 3 |
2024 | Tuur | Top 50 Music Albums of the 2010s | 19/50 | 13 |
2021 | stereo_mike | Top 100 Music Albums of 2018 | 30/100 | 4 |
2018 | Mixmag | The Top 50 Albums Of 2018 | 38/50 | 1 |
2018 | Drift | 2018 Records Of The Year | 36/100 | 3 |
Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 5 | |||
Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 23 |
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Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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85/100 ![]() | 03/10/2024 11:00 | Tuur | ![]() | 67/100 |
70/100 ![]() | 05/21/2020 16:03 | tillz | ![]() | 79/100 |
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Having been asked to produce a mix of their favourite work for BBC’s Essential Mix series, Belgian dance duo Soulwax took the more prankish route and decided instead to hand in an album of entirely new material, all riffing off the word “essential”. There are moments early on where it feels a bit gimmicky, but as they’ve repeatedly shown in the past (e.g. 00:00 Introversy), a Soulwax gimmick gets done properly. And goddamnit, the beats are infectious. Essentially.
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