The 2008 Pazz and Jop Village Voice critics poll is out, and TVOTR wins in a landslide:

Albums:

1. "Dear Science" -- TV on the Radio (1744 points, 154 votes)
2. "Vampire Weekend" -- Vampire Weekend (1075, 105)
3. "Third" -- Portishead (1058, 102)
4. "New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War" -- Erykah Badu (910, 80)
5. "Fleet Foxes" -- Fleet Foxes (907, 87)
6. "Tha Carter III" -- Lil Wayne (817, 78)
7. "Santogold" -- Santogold (808, 79)
8. "For Emma, Forever Ago" -- Bon Iver (770, 75)
9. "Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!" -- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (687, 61)
10. "808s & Heartbreak" -- Kanye West (687, 61)
11. "Microcastle/Weird Era Continued" -- Deerhunter (585, 55)
12. "Harps and Angels" -- Randy Newman (546, 48)
13. "Stay Positive" -- The Hold Steady (540, 54)
14. "Nouns" -- No Age (452, 45)
15. "Feed the Animals" -- Girl Talk (440, 43)
16. "Evil Urges" -- My Morning Jacket (429, 43)
17. "Oracular Spectacular" -- MGMT (425, 43)
18. "Hercules & Love Affair" -- Hercules & Love Affair (416, 42)
19. "The Way I See It" -- Raphael Saadiq (415, 45)
20. "Tell Tell Signs: Rare and Unreleased -- The Bootleg Series Vol. 8" -- Bob Dylan (402, 36)

Singles:

1. "Paper Planes" -- M.I.A. (107 votes)
2. "American Boy" -- Estelle feat. Kanye West (71)
3. "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" -- Beyonce (59)
4. "Time to Pretend" -- MGMT (53)
5. "A Milli" -- Lil Wayne (50)
6. "L.E.S. Artistes" -- Santogold (49)
7. "Blind" -- Hercules & Love Affair (46)
8. "Viva La Vida" -- Coldplay (39)
9. "Love Lockdown" -- Kanye West (38)
10. "White Winter Hymnal" -- Fleet Foxes (32)

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Originally posted by Peewee:

3. "Third" -- Portishead (1058, 102)

Surely they planned this.

Well deserved winner, what can I say...

EDIT: Wow, I'm an "apprentice guru" now? Cool.

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Surely they planned this.

Haha, brilliant.

I always feel like the Pazz & Jop lists are really great; don't particularly care for some of the top inclusions this year though...

Dear Science rocks though, so thats cool.