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.
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Cut Worms, Transmitter
Produced by Jeff Tweedy, Max Clarke’s fourth album tampers down the luster of past records, grounding aspects of the indie-folk songwriter’s music that once seemed impossibly pristine.
Kim Gordon, Play Me
Fully embracing the trashy SoundCloud-era internet aesthetic as she raps, sings, and shreds over industrial clatter, this is the sound of an artist who’s still inspired by the cutting edge at 72.
The Notwist, News From Planet Zombie
This folksy, brassy new iteration of the German trio excels at melodies that yearn and churn with melancholy—yet still manages something celebratory.
A.D. Amorosi
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In Conversation
In Conversation: Gen Hoshino’s Magical Multiplicity
The multifaceted songwriter discusses the amorphous “Gen Hoshino genre,” his new American audience, and his contribution to Dua Lipa’s new remix LP.
September 21, 2020
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Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, “Just Coolin’” + Thelonious Monk, “Palo Alto”
Neither of these jazz recordings is any less mysterious or magical just because they’re finally available at large.
September 21, 2020
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The Rolling Stones, “Goats Head Soup: Super Deluxe Edition”
The reason to invest in Super Deluxe “Soup” is the once-pricey “Brussels Affair” live bootleg.
September 17, 2020
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Various Artists, “AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex”
This lot, quiet or loud, make for an exquisite vision of T. Rex.
September 16, 2020
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The Flaming Lips, “American Head”
The latest from the Lips is a peculiarly placid sound that only this collection of artists seem capable of making.
September 14, 2020
In Conversation
In Conversation: Georgia Anne Muldrow on Finding Freedom as Jyoti
The Alice Coltrane–gifted pseudonym resurfaced for a third record, released last Friday.
August 31, 2020
FLOOD’s Guide to Record Store Day 2020 Part 1: Bowie, Gorillaz, Denzel Curry, and More
RSD’s pandemic-necessitated three-part event kicks off this weekend—we talked to co-creator Michael Kurtz about what to expect, as well as preview twelve releases we’re excited for.
August 28, 2020
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Erasure, “The Neon”
The record’s touching maturity doesn’t always jive with the wonton ways of its flaming musicality.
August 25, 2020
In Conversation
In Conversation: The Purple Reign of Washed Out
Ernest Green discusses his new album “Purple Noon,” the French film that inspired it, and his newfound love for collaboration.
August 18, 2020
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The Stooges, “Live at Goose Lake: August 8th, 1970”
The 1970 set captures the band in full, frenetic death swoon.
August 11, 2020
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Johnny Cash, “A Night To Remember, 1973” + “The Complete Mercury Recordings”
Both new projects pull the curtain back on missed moments, eras of Cash once considered minor.
August 03, 2020
Gordon Lightfoot: The Solitary Man Has Some Laughs on “Solo”
With the new Lightfoot doc premiering today, we revisit a conversation we had with the legendary songwriter earlier this year upon the release of his 21st album.
July 29, 2020
In Conversation
In Conversation: Talking Heads’ Chris Frantz on His New Book “Remain in Love”
The co-founder of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club speaks gleefully in his memoir, out today.
July 21, 2020
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JARV IS…, “Beyond the Pale”
“Beyond the Pale” feels tight, tense, yet free, with pasty Cocker as the broodingly bittersweet centerpiece.
July 20, 2020
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Willie Nelson, “First Rose of Spring”
This Nelson isn’t bleak, but he sure comes close to it.
July 09, 2020
Film + TVIn Memoriam
Ennio Morricone: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Remembering the iconic Italian film composer, who died this week at 91.
July 08, 2020
In Conversation
In Conversation: Rufus Wainwright’s New Rules
The singer/songwriter on love and politics, mom and dad, and his frank new album, Unfollow the Rules.
July 01, 2020
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Teyana Taylor, “The Album”
The R&B star’s lengthy new record is rife with positivist, lush, classic R&B with a ’90s revisionist twist.
July 01, 2020
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Khruangbin, “Mordechai”
The trio’s third LP sticks to piledriving and fluid rhythms while stoking their flames of melody like never before.
June 30, 2020
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Bob Dylan, “Rough and Rowdy Ways”
Dylan once again reinvents himself for his first album of original songs since 2012.
June 22, 2020
