Wednesday, February 06, 2019

Tom's Ballot for the 2018 Village Voice Pazz & Jop Critics Poll

Well this was a surprise. Despite announcing that they were shutting down their website (paper version died years ago), in late December, someone who was still doing archive work for the Village Voice decided to take on another year of the legendary Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.
I've been voting in this since the early 00's.

Here's a link to my 2018 Pazz & Jop ballot Tom Lane Albums Ballot + Tom Lane Singles Ballot

As in the past, it goes like this.
Rank albums 1-10 by dividing 100 points among the 10 picks.  No more than 30 points and no less than 5.
Singles aren't awarded points.

Albums 
1.  Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour  (25)
2.  Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer    (20)
3.  Pistol Annies - Interstate Gospel     (20)
4.  Ashley McBryde - Girl Going Nowhere  (5)
5.  John Prine - Tree of Forgiveness   (5)
6.  Amanda Shires - To The Sunset   (5)
7.  Neko Case - Hell-On   (5)
8.  Fantastic Negrito - Please Don't Be Dead   (5)
9.  Mary Gauthier - Rifles and Rosemary Beads   (5)
10. War and Treaty - Healing Tide  (5)


Singles 
1.  Kacey Musgraves - Slow Burn
2.  Camila Cabello - Havana
3.  Pistol Annies - Best Years of My Life
4.  Childish Gambino - This Is America
5.  Zedd w/Maren Morris - Middle
6.  Chris Jansen - Drunk Girl
7.  Neko Case - Curse of the I-5 Corridor
8.  Janelle Monae -  Make Me Feel
9.  Lori McKenna - People Get Old
10. Ella Mai - Boo'd Up
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