Absence
by Dälek

Absence by Dälek
Year: 2005
Release date: 2005-02-08
Overall rank: 4,945th   
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 61 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2005 (88th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (851st)
Award Best albums of all time (4,945th)

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Absence is ranked as the best album by Dälek.

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Overall rank: 4,945th | 2000s rank: 851st | 2005 rank: 88th

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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 61 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.1/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.8.

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From 05/01/2016 22:15 | #164954
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.
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From 01/27/2015 18:12 | #132742
Simply the best hip hop album ever. Tihs is the rage of all the black people put in music.
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