BREAKING: Music magazine has nice things to say about Vampire Weekend and Daft Punk.
Rolling Stone have knocked out their annual take on the year in music and the mag has anointed Vampire Weekend’s Modern Vampires of the City as 2013’s Album of the Year. “In 2013, no other record mixed emotional weight with studio-rat craft and sheer stuck-in-your-headhummability like this one,”; proclaims the write-up.
Coming in at #2 is Kanye West’s Yeezus, followed by Daft Punk, Paul McCartney and Arcade Fire. The biggest surprise on the year end album list? Probably John Fogerty’s Wrote a Song for Everyone popping up in the Top 10. (It’s a pick that plays into Rolling Stone“s “go old pros go!”; stereotype.)
Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”; was crowned Single of the Year by the publication, scoring the #1 spot ahead of Lorde, Kanye, Vampire Weekend and Disclosure.
Rolling Stone also released their choices for the year’s best films. Steve McQueen’s critically adored picture 12 Years a Slave topped the publication’s Movies of the Year list, followed by Gravity, The Wolf of Wall Street, Before Midnight and Her.
