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.
Land of Talk
Ranks
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2011 
2010#280 of 2582
2009 
2008#224 of 2244
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Land of Talk · Cloak & Cipher2010#243504      
Craig Carson · Emily Tartanella · Jon Young · Rob Van Alstyne
Similar Albums
.0862Thao Nguyen With the Get Down Stay Down · Know Better Learn Faster  (2009)
.0443Best Coast · Crazy for You  (2010)
.0272Camera Obscura · My Maudlin Career  (2009)
Land of Talk · Some Are Lakes2008#227454      
Amber Schadewald · Bo Pogue · Brian Orloff · Jon Young
Similar Albums
.0622Laura Marling · A Creature I Don't Know  (2011)
.0352Julia Holter · Have You in My Wilderness  (2015)
.0302She & Him · Volume One  (2008)
.0302Wye Oak · Civilian  (2011)
.0272Camera Obscura · My Maudlin Career  (2009)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Land of Talk · "Some Are Lakes"2008#25420 
Chris DeVille · Stephen Thompson
Similar Songs
.0922Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros · "Home"  (2010)
.0652Bon Iver · "Blood Bank"  (2009)
.0502Vampire Weekend · "Step"  (2013)
Land of Talk · "It's Okay"2008#45010 
Amber Schadewald
Similar Artists
.1482Saintseneca
.1482The Staves
.1272Sera Cahoone
.0892Fanfarlo
.0812Haley Bonar
.0682Jeremy Messersmith
.0682My Brightest Diamond
.0682Stars
.0563Santigold
.0562Lianne La Havas
.0562Poliça
.0562Volcano Choir
.0492Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
.0484Laura Marling
.0425Best Coast
.0403Camera Obscura
.0362Jamila Woods
.0343Wye Oak
.0342Times New Viking
.0295The National
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com