Village Voice publishes Pazz + Jop poll: Kendrick Lamar and "Hotline Bling" top the lists
The Village Voice‘s annual Pazz+Jop issue has just been published. Polling nearly 500 music critics, you may not be too surprised, at this point, to learn that Kendrick Lamar‘s To Pimp a Butterfly topped their 2015 albums list. (It was our #1 too.) Here’s the Top 10:
1 Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly
2 Courtney Barnett, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
3 Carly Rae Jepsen, Emotion
4 Grimes, Art Angels
5 Sleater-Kinney, No Cities to Love
6 Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell
7 Vince Staples, Summertime ’06
8 Kamasi Washington, The Epic
9 Jamie xx, In Colour
10 Father John Misty, I Love You, Honeybear
On the singles side, Drake‘s unstoppable “Hotline Bling” was the critics’ #1 consensus and here’s the Top 10 (well Top 9, there was a tie):
1 Drake, Hotline Bling
2 Kendrick Lamar, King Kunta
3 The Weeknd, Can’t Feel My Face
4 Kendrick Lamar, Alright
5 Courtney Barnett, Pedestrian at Best
6 Missy Elliott (ft. Pharrell Williams), WTF (Where They From)
7 Fetty Wap, Trap Queen
8 Mark Ronson (ft. Bruno Mars), Uptown Funk
9 (tie) Adele, Hello
9 (tie) Jamie xx (ft. Young Thug & Popcaan), I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)
The Pazz & Jop lists go all the way to albums and tracks with single votes, and you can look at individual critics ballots too, plus read a bunch of year-summarizing essays.
