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.
Shrinebuilder
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2009#336 of 2591
2008 
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Shrinebuilder · Shrinebuilder2009#3164158.2.840.256.456  
Brent Burton · David Pehling · Jonathan Lundeen · Laina Dawes · Nathan Carson
Similar Albums
.3003Ufomammut · Oro: Opus Primum & Alter  (2012)
.2422Neurosis · Honor Found in Decay  (2012)
.2344Yob · Clearing the Path to Ascend  (2014)
.1572Earth · Primitive and Deadly  (2014)
.1332The Atlas Moth · An Ache for the Distance  (2011)
.1332High on Fire · De Vermis Mysteriis  (2012)
.1332Neurosis · Fires Within Fires  (2016)
.1332Oneida · Rated O  (2009)
.1073Carcass · Surgical Steel  (2013)
.0923Pallbearer · Foundations of Burden  (2014)
.0832Opeth · Watershed  (2008)
.0762Gorguts · Colored Sands  (2013)
.0704Mastodon · Crack the Skye  (2009)
.0572Kylesa · Spiral Shadow  (2010)
.0572Pallbearer · Sorrow and Extinction  (2012)
.0572Scott Walker + Sunn O))) · Soused  (2014)
.0563Converge · Axe to Fall  (2009)
.0532Converge · All We Love We Leave Behind  (2012)
.0493Baroness · The Blue Record  (2009)
.0382Mastodon · The Hunter  (2011)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Shrinebuilder · "Blind for All to See"2009#58510 
Laina Dawes
Similar Artists
.3003Ufomammut
.2422Indian
.1902Aluk Todolo
.1554Yob
.1332The Atlas Moth
.1332Neurosis
.1073Opeth
.1023Carcass
.0922Oneida
.0832Royal Thunder
.0762Inter Arma
.0673Pallbearer
.0612Earth
.0612Gorguts
.0572Enslaved
.0572Scott Walker + Sunn O)))
.0502High on Fire
.0484Mastodon
.0473Converge
.0452Nachtmystium
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com