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.
Heartless Bastards
Ranks
2016 
2015#649 of 2068
2014 
2013 
2012#277 of 2213
2011 
2010 
2009#141 of 2591
2008 
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Heartless Bastards · Restless Ones2015#640101      
Al Shipley
Heartless Bastards · Arrow2012#259353      
Dan Ferguson · Gary Graff · Mark Deming
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.2962Patterson Hood · Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance  (2012)
.1272Mavis Staples · One True Vine  (2013)
.0992J.D. McPherson · Signs & Signifiers  (2012)
.0562Kelly Hogan · I Like to Keep Myself in Pain  (2012)
.0332Lydia Loveless · Somewhere Else  (2014)
.0292Iggy Pop · Post Pop Depression  (2016)
.0292Margo Price · Midwest Farmer's Daughter  (2016)
.0272Chris Stapleton · Traveller  (2015)
.0252Jason Isbell · Southeastern  (2013)
Heartless Bastards · The Mountain2009#13199812.4.688.616.010  
Andrea Swensson · Chris Riemenschneider · Dan Ferguson · Dave Lindquist · Ken Tucker · Lissa Townsend Rodgers · Matt Thomas · Michael Hoinski
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.1902Astronautalis · This Is Our Science  (2011)
.1572Cave Singers · No Witch  (2011)
.1572Doomtree · No Kings  (2011)
.1332Deer Tick · The Black Dirt Sessions  (2010)
.1203James McMurtry · Just Us Kids  (2008)
.0832Deer Tick · Born on Flag Day  (2009)
.0832Dessa · A Badly Broken Code  (2010)
.0832JD McPherson · Let the Good Times Roll  (2015)
.0652Benjamin Booker · Benjamin Booker  (2014)
.0652Deer Tick · Divine Providence  (2011)
.0572Hurray for the Riff Raff · Small Town Heroes  (2014)
.0572P.O.S. · Never Better  (2009)
.0432Low · C'mon  (2011)
.0354Black Keys · Brothers  (2010)
.0323Mos Def · The Ecstatic  (2009)
.0305Arcade Fire · The Suburbs  (2010)
.0282Leon Bridges · Coming Home  (2015)
.0274Yeah Yeah Yeahs · It's Blitz!  (2009)
.0272Margo Price · Midwest Farmer's Daughter  (2016)
.0253Sturgill Simpson · Metamodern Sounds in Country Music  (2014)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Heartless Bastards · "Gates of Dawn"2015#46510 
Charles Johnson
Heartless Bastards · "Parted Ways"2012#44910 
Ted Cox
Heartless Bastards · "The Mountain"2009#33120 
Anthony Mariani · Matt Thomas
Heartless Bastards · "Out at Sea"2009#58510 
Camille Dodero
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.2863Mark Ronson
.1823Awolnation
.1333Patterson Hood
.1272Gotye
.1253Dessa
.1144Deer Tick
.1112Memory Map
.1112St. Paul & the Broken Bones
.1085James McMurtry
.1003Benjamin Booker
.0992Doomtree
.0992Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
.0915Foo Fighters
.0892Cave Singers
.0845Mavis Staples
.0833Kelly Hogan
.0812Astronautalis
.0812The Flat Five
.0743Robbie Fulks
.0682Dead Sara
.0682Dnce
.0682Tedeschi Trucks Band
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com