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I took today off from work, ostensibly to recover from the kick ass inauguration night party I booked at Chop Suey last night - but what I'll really be doing all day long is going through the ballots of the Village Voice's annual Pazz and Jop poll. This year's poll had 579 critics voting - and the consensus said that TV on the Radio's Dear Science and MIA's "Paper Planes" were the best album and single, respectively.
Seattle's critics darlings, Fleet Foxes, finished fifth for their self-titled album. While they are certainly critics darlings (P4k said Fleet Foxes was their favorite album of 2008), they aren't the darlings of Seattle critics. There were 87 critics who put their self-titled debut on their top ten lists, I only counted two, Charles R. Cross and imaginary dana, as being from Seattle.
I'll be trying to find more interesting things in this poll throughout the day (which is probably what I would be doing all day long anyway, if I did go in to work). The ballots are here and with imaginary liz's and my ballots accordingly.
Here's the video for the best single of the year ("Paper Planes"):
Reviews
1 Chris Estey said on January 22, 2009
Wow! So many albums on these lists I can see "American Psycho" chopping girls up to in pristine yuppie apartments! Maybe it's good that the "album is dying" if this is what gets the critical honors.
For charming lists made by real humans whose favorite artists apparently don't use Auto-Tuned vocals and don't get them slick suck up points, check out Kurt Reighley's, Dave Segal's, Brian Barr's, Amanda Petrusich's, Sara Zupko's (Joe Ely at #1!), Matt Sullivan's, Chuck Eddy's, the TIG gang's, Mike McGonical's, Charles Cross's. There are a few more but some of my favorite writers just scared the shit out of me for their tastes. Really?
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