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.
The Garden, Bootleg
“Thrilling” is putting the twin duo’s sixth album gently, as Wyatt and Fletcher Shears refuse to sit still throughout 14 superstitious tracks of dark anarchy and paranormal possibility.
Scritti Politti, Cupid & Psyche 85 [Deluxe Edition]
Seduced by the sound of sleek American R&B of the early ’80s, Green Gartside fashioned the tone of his band’s second album around irresistible melodies and crisp drum programming.
Allison Russell, In the Hour of Chaos
Clearly written in the pressure cooker of Trump’s America, the artist’s community-oriented third album battles the darkness with an at-times overwhelming sense of optimism.
Adolf Alzuphar
These are the sort of arrangements that pride themselves on being so elegant that they practically demand an audience get dressed up to meet them.
Any art that pours out of social criticism is an attempt at reorganizing society, and all Joey Bada$$ wants is for his country to respect black lives.
There’s a kind of political beauty in the sight of an empowered woman and her band communicating passionately and honestly.
“Fin” confidently reinvents a music made for bumping and grooving with a lyrical prowess that burns slowly, confessionally.
