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.
Tortoise
Ranks
2016#330 of 2370
2015#1504 of 2068
2014 
2013 
2012 
2011 
2010 
2009#517 of 2591
2008 
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Tortoise · The Catastrophist2016#334252      
Brad Cohan · Chad Radford
Similar Albums
.3332Melvins Lite · Freak Puke  (2012)
Tortoise · Beacons of Ancestorship2009#578202      
Catherine Lewis · Vijith Assar
Similar Albums
.0222Bat for Lashes · Two Suns  (2009)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Tortoise (ft. Georgia Hubley) · "Yonder Blue"2016#26820 
Geoffrey Stueven · Jesse Jarnow
Similar Songs
.0612David Bowie · "I Can't Give Everything Away"  (2016)
Tortoise · "Gesceap"2015#46510 
Doug Wallen
Tortoise · "Gigantes - Mark Ernestus Version"2009#58510 
Philip Sherburne
Tortoise · "High Class Slim Came Floatin' In"2009#58510 
Dave Segal
Tortoise · "Prepare Your Coffin"2009#58510 
Derek Barber
Similar Artists
.1902Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek
.1902Melvins Lite
.1902Skeletons
.1572Andrew Pekler
.1572Phenomenal Handclap Band
.1572tobias.
.1332Deaf Wish
.1332Jo Johnson
.1332The Necks
.1162Mike Watt
.1133Cate Le Bon
.107375 Dollar Bill
.1073Zs
.0922Daphni
.0922Endless Boogie
.0922Sightings
.0832Frida Hyvönen
.0832Oneida
.0762Dick Diver
.0762Jack Rose
.0762James Holden
.0762Tori Amos
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com