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.
The Flat Five
Ranks
2016#147 of 2370
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Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
The Flat Five · It's a World of Love and Hope2016#12362610.3.763.355.000 .000
Dan Ferguson · J Poet · Kurt B. Reighley · Mark Keresman · Robert Loerzel · Ted Cox
Similar Albums
.2615Kelly Hogan · I Like to Keep Myself in Pain  (2012)
.1112Mavis Staples · One True Vine  (2013)
.0953Robbie Fulks · Upland Stories  (2016)
.0713Lydia Loveless · Somewhere Else  (2014)
.0682Benjamin Booker · Benjamin Booker  (2014)
.0632Charles Bradley · Changes  (2016)
.0522Elizabeth Cook · Welder  (2010)
.0472Iris DeMent · Sing the Delta  (2012)
.0453Gillian Welch · The Harrow and the Harvest  (2011)
.0442Bill Callahan · Dream River  (2013)
.0422Phosphorescent · Here's to Taking It Easy  (2010)
.0422Tinariwen · Imidiwan: Companions  (2009)
.0392Mikal Cronin · Mcii  (2013)
.0372Amadou & Mariam · Welcome to Mali  (2009)
.0362Alejandro Escovedo · Real Animal  (2008)
.0322Bob Dylan · Together Through Life  (2009)
.0322Charles Bradley · No Time for Dreaming  (2011)
.0312Mavis Staples · You Are Not Alone  (2010)
.0304Neko Case · Middle Cyclone  (2009)
.0302She & Him · Volume One  (2008)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
The Flat Five · "Buglight"2016#47910 
Ted Cox
Similar Artists
.2125Kelly Hogan
.1482Dale Watson
.0892Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens
.0833Robbie Fulks
.0632Mekons
.0562Baseball Project
.0562Sam Phillips
.0522Benjamin Booker
.0522Heartless Bastards
.0522Richard Thompson
.0473Lydia Loveless
.0472PJ Harvey and John Parish
.0422Elizabeth Cook
.0422Iris DeMent
.0403Mavis Staples
.0383Gillian Welch
.0342Reigning Sound
.0333Lucinda Williams
.0302Thao Nguyen With the Get Down Stay Down
.0263Bill Callahan
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com