This is a statistical index to the Village Voice Pazz & Jop music critics poll, generated in the process of its tabulation for the last few years.
 
Click any linked column-heading to sort a table by that column. Click any album or song for an artist profile, or any voter for a voter profile.
 
Some explanation of the various esoteric metrics:
Similarity is calculated for albums, songs and artists based on voter overlap, and for ballots and voters based on album+song+artist overlap. The ballot and voter scores are weighted by album/song/artist popularity.
Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics
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2009#128 of 2591
2008 
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics · Inspiration Information, Vol. 32009#1121131110.3.830.823.0321.000 
Andy Beta · Andy Gensler · Chet Betz · Clayton Purdom · Dave Segal · David Pehling · James Bradley · K Leander Williams · Nathan Hogan · Otis Hart · Todd Kristel
Similar Albums
.1332Étoile de Dakar · Once Upon a Time in Senegal: The Birth of Mbalax  (2010)
.1332(various artists) · The Rough Guide to Congo Gold  (2009)
.1254Allen Toussaint · The Bright Mississippi  (2009)
.1164Surfer Blood · Astro Coast  (2010)
.1073Demdike Stare · Tryptych  (2011)
.1032Moodymann · Moodymann  (2014)
.1032Teebs · Ardour  (2010)
.0853Emeralds · Does It Look Like I'm Here?  (2010)
.0762King Creosote & Jon Hopkins · Diamond Mine  (2011)
.0762Sun Araw · On Patrol  (2010)
.0723Gil Scott-Heron · I'm New Here  (2010)
.0703Women · Public Strain  (2010)
.0702Franco & le Tout Puissant OK Jazz · Francophonic, Vol. 2  (2009)
.0702Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts · Manhattan  (2015)
.0702Laurie Anderson · Heart of a Dog  (2015)
.0702Robert Forster · The Evangelist  (2008)
.0612Arthur Russell · Love Is Overtaking Me  (2008)
.0593Four Tet · There Is Love in You  (2010)
.0572Aloe Blacc · Good Things  (2010)
.0572Toumani Diabate · The Mande Variations  (2008)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics · "Anglo-Ethio Suite"2009#58510 
Joe Tangari
Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics · "Blue Nile"2009#58510 
Scott Reid
Similar Artists
.1943Teebs
.1402Traumprinz
.1212Bjørn Torske
.1212Étoile de Dakar
.1212Jermiside
.1072Blackout Beach
.1072Blue Hawaii
.1033Cool Kids
.0994Allen Toussaint
.0994Colin Stetson
.0952.L.W.H.
.0934Women
.0925Surfer Blood
.0864Amadou & Mariam
.0864Santigold
.0863Matias Aguayo
.0862Vybz Kartel
.0793Demdike Stare
.0782Daphni
.0744Big KRIT
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com