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.
Dirty Projectors and David Byrne
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2009#895 of 2591
2008 
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Dirty Projectors and David Byrne · "Knotty Pine"2009#96701.000
A.D. Amorosi · Colin St. John · Derek Barber · Ezra Gale · Mark Zepezauer · Omar Kholeif · Rachel Brodsky
Similar Songs
.1672The Knux · "Bang! Bang!"  (2008)
.0862Danny Brown · "Grown Up"  (2012)
.0862Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings · "Better Things"  (2010)
.0782Panda Bear · "Mr Noah"  (2014)
.0575Animal Collective · "My Girls"  (2009)
.0482Mumford & Sons · "Little Lion Man"  (2010)
.0442The xx · "Crystalised"  (2009)
.0422Kid Cudi · "Day 'N' Nite"  (2009)
.0382Lily Allen · "The Fear"  (2009)
.0242Frank Ocean · "Pyramids"  (2012)
.0242Jack Ü (ft. Justin Bieber) · "Where Are Ü Now"  (2015)
.0232Lady Gaga · "Paparazzi"  (2009)
.0202Girls · "Lust for Life"  (2009)
Similar Artists
.1402Jack Ü
.0512Major Lazer
.0403Sonic Youth
.0393Kid Cudi
.0372The Knux
.0332Deerhoof
.0302Dan Deacon
.0293Anohni
.0272Jónsi
.0265Dirty Projectors
.0252Bombino
.0252The Very Best
.0234Girls
.0233Daft Punk
.0225Animal Collective
.0215Cee Lo Green
.0213Sky Ferreira
.0212Micachu and the Shapes
.0204Grizzly Bear
.0202Panda Bear
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com