Here’s how Austin-related artists placed this year in the 2005 Village Voice Pazz and Jop poll of critics. If I missed anyone, let me know in the comments.

14. Spoon, Gimme Fiction (Merge)

58. Okkervil River, Black Sheep Boy (Secretly Canadian)

97. …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Worlds Apart (Interscope)

111. Smog, A River Ain’t Too Much to Love (Drag City)

132. Iron & Wine, Woman King (Sub Pop)

151. Various Artists, American Primitive Vol. II: Pre-War Revenants (1897-1939) (Revenant)

165. Iron and Wine/Calexico, In the Reins (Overcoat)

316. Nic Armstrong & The Thieves, The Greatest White Liar (New West)

416. American Analog Set, Set Free (Arts & Crafts)

476. Charlie Sexton, Cruel And Gentle Things (Back Porch Records)

714. Explosions in the Sky, How Strange, Innocence (Temporary Residence)

749. Willie Nelson, Countryman (Lost Highway)

921. Grady, Y.U. So Shady? (self)

1019. Junior Brown, The Austin Experience: Recorded Live at the Continental Club (Telarc)

1019. The Octopus Project, One Ten Hundred Thousand Million (Peek-a-Boo)

1019. Okkervil River, Black Sheep Boy Appendix (Secretly Canadian)