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.
Kelela, New Avatar
The songwriter’s earliest soul and jazz influences can be found swirling throughout her third album, which also expands into the realms of hypnotic electronic music and alt rock.
Chanel Beads, Your Day Will Come
Leaning into his shoulder-devil, Shane Lavers’ second album trades the uncanny artifice of its predecessor for a tactile, physical confrontation of what it looks like to face inner darkness.
Madonna, Confessions II
Reteaming with producer Stuart Price for a sequel to her 2005 nu-disco LP, the pop star capitalizes on the velvet cordiality of her vocals with a sparkling new brand of arrangements.
A.D. Amorosi
This warm, mossy 50th anniversary reissue benefits from the dirtball proceedings of its homespun recording sessions and its homier, oblong songs.
The new BBE Music tribute comp and Sukita’s art book “Eternity” remember the artist as feline, fragile, and soulful.
Both records remain stunning after nearly 45 years, with neither losing their punch or import.
Germany’s beloved experimentalists get to the heart of their art with a series of never-before-released live albums kicking off this Friday.
Faithfull finds sympathetic, poetic tones and empathetic lilting melodies in the guise of producer/violinist Ellis.
The retrospective on the artist, whose work you may know from Pavement and Silver Jews album covers, has nearly reached its Kickstarter goal.
The mega-box set gives rabid fans something to hold onto, stuffing the band’s innovative discography into an immense treasure chest.
The British comedian isn’t laughing anymore (well, not while making his seriously soulful psychedelic music).
We talked to curator Lee Foster about the new site he’s running with the Johnston family to share the late songwriter’s visual art.
This posthumous LP is less a grand finale summing up a career than it is another piece of a greater puzzle.
This remastering of the ex-Beatle’s solo debut sees wealths of emotion poured out in ways previously unimaginable.
On the future-looking new releases from Dr. Lonnie Smith and Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio.
Overstuffed and unified, this deluxe reissue has all the freneticism of its initial ideal whole.
The EP feels more like a party with friends discussing the nation’s state of shock than it does a staid studio session.
Re-released on red vinyl by Nonesuch Records, this major-label debut is still a delectably odd beauty.
Producer Andrew Loog Oldham and documentarian Mary Wharton contextualize The Poet and The Poet II on the event of the albums’ reissue.
The keeper of the castle that is Jamaican music, Patricia Chin tells the story of her life’s work with “Miss Pat: My Reggae Music Journey.”
Early synth designer-producer Margouleff talks about the late great producer, the 50th anniversary of Tonto’s Expanding Head Band, and helping Stevie Wonder innovate.
Pharoah Sanders and Floating Points have created a vintage vibe noir masterpiece for the 21st century.
“L.W.” is the fussier second half to the brutal “K.G.,” a glistening yin to its toughened yang.
