Absence
by Dälek
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Absence is ranked as the best album by Dälek.
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Absence track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/06/2026 12:05 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,495 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/29/2026 00:56 |  Special | 2,981 | 72/100 |
| ! | 02/12/2026 03:30 | thepardunk | 2,587 | 69/100 |
| ! | 12/15/2025 05:12 | juanr1096 | 6,202 | 78/100 |
| ! | 04/17/2025 12:55 | Svelte8 | 1,896 | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.3/100, a mean average of 77.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.6.
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babyBlueSedan 05/01/2016 22:15 | #164954 | TOP COMMENT
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I absolutely adore the production on this album; the industrial noise has very limited variety in terms of tone but is incredibly hard hitting. There are tracks where it drags on a little too long, but for me the noise never overstays it's welcome. The rapping is a little underwhelming and the lyrics could have been written by a high school philosophy student, but since the noise is way more powerful it doesn't drag the album down too much. (Edited)
Simply the best hip hop album ever. Tihs is the rage of all the black people put in music.
couldn't figure out where to put moderation comments on a change i was approving, but old issue of conflicting sources is gone - Amazon, Wikipedia, RYM, and official website list 2005 as the release year (Edited)
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