Celebrate our tenth anniversary with the biggest issue we’ve ever made. FLOOD 13 is deluxe, 252-page commemorative edition—a collectible, coffee-table-style volume in a 12″ x 12″ format—packed with dynamic graphic design, stunning photography and artwork, and dozens of amazing artists representing the past, present, and future of FLOOD’s editorial spectrum, while also looking back at key moments and events in our history. Inside, you’ll find in-depth cover stories on Gorillaz and Magdalena Bay, plus interviews with Mac DeMarco, Lord Huron, Wolf Alice, Norman Reedus, The Zombies, Nation of Language, Bootsy Collins, Fred Armisen, Jazz Is Dead, Automatic, Rocket, and many more.
Various artists, Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers
These unheard tracks from Dirty Projectors, Daniel Lopatin, and more are hushed and raw, all crafted with the idea of evoking a sense of home to highlight those whose own are at risk.
HEALTH, Conflict DLC
The noise-rockers’ sixth LP is a full-on rush of nihilistic energy, a shattered disco ball serving as the perfect encapsulation of a world decimated by capitalistic greed at the expense of humanity.
Fucked Up, Year of the Goat
Made up of two nearly half-hour tracks, the hardcore experimentalists’ latest is artistically commendable and consistently intriguing, even if it tends to test the listener’s patience.
A.D. Amorosi
This installment of the org’s benefit series builds upon its predecessor’s variety, starpower, and vitality with original recordings and other curiosities from David Byrne & Devo, Courtney Barnett, Faye Webster, and more.
The liberated blues of Hejira and the melodic complexities of Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter and Mingus found the songwriting icon more footloose than ever.
Running through the rest of the month at NYC’s Lincoln Center, the multimedia artist discusses how the project reflects a lifetime of Afrofuturist ideas.
The collaborators’ ambient soundscape created on the spot in 1998 in Bonn, Germany sounds like a jungle-meets-musique-concrète take on Eno’s 1981 collaboration with David Byrne.
The long-awaited debut from the Fifth Harmony alum is a sleekly chic R&B album that sticks to a one-mood-fits-all soundtrack of listless soul rather than attempting innovation.
Honus Honus’ seventh album maintains the project’s mad experimental dips and tipsy lyricism while venturing into unexpectedly pretty new territory.
50 years after singing on the sole release from the first-ever prison band studio recording, the songwriter talks beginning a new chapter with the help of Brewerytown Records’s Max Ochester.
The third collection of posthumous recordings since his passing in 2016 finds the Suicide bandleader balanced between shocking melancholy and a sense of optimism.
Natasha Khan’s sixth studio album is quieter and sparer than its predecessors as motherhood lends her crowded lyrics and arrangements a new sense of loving poignancy.
The 1979 musical comedy’s director connects the dots between the late cult film figure and modernism with the Ramones in tow.
Ringo Starr discusses getting a little help from his friend Linda Perry on his recent Crooked Boy EP.
The alt-pop songwriter’s intricate third full-length collaboration with her brother FINNEAS explores what it means to grow up in public and find one’s voice, both literally and figuratively.
The Brooklyn-based neo-soul vocalist and composer holds onto the chunky melodic hooks of her recent output while grieving the death of her father and finding room for romance and joy.
A brief guide to the late engineering icon’s most definitive classics.
The brotherly bubblegum duo continues to channel vintage pop figures ranging from Brian Wilson to Todd Rundgren on their fifth album of exquisite harmonies and contagious melodies.
Knee deep in sweeping melancholia and clipped pop songs, the iconic synthpop duo’s latest LP is their most full-blooded effort in over a decade.
The Scary Monsters to 2021’s Young Americans–esque Daddy’s Home, Annie Clark’s seventh album is bleak and noisily unamiable yet somehow surprisingly accessible when listened to in its entirety.
Almost 30 years into their existence, the post-punk revivalists let listeners know that their youthful fire hasn’t dimmed on their fourth, most tightly wound album.
40 releases to keep your eyes peeled for as you descend upon your local record shops this Saturday.
Dabbling in odd, electronically treated acoustic instrumentation, the new-age-gone-wild sibling duo repackages material recorded in the ’80s and released last decade for a new label.
