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.
Meg Lui, Instant Validation
Partnering with Sufjan Stevens on her perky debut album of freewheeling folk-pop, country-rock, and even sea shanties, the Catskills-based songwriter flits between genres with ease.
Empress Of, Dream House
On a prismatic album about reconstruction and fulfillment, the Honduran-American songwriter embodies pure-hearted conviction to remind us home is where the heart is.
Emma Ruth Rundle, These Killing Times
Capturing the existential uncertainty and anguish of being alive right now, each of the eight tracks on the Portland-based songwriter’s new record feels like some kind of séance.
Austin Nguyen
Harriette Pilbeam discusses how her second album leans into autobiography and restlessness.
If PinkPantheress found a sweet spot for nostalgia-tinted love letters, consider Missal her lusty foil with a smirking text for every lights-out sexual craving.
On her second EP, the British songwriter explores the warmth and intimate depths of negative space.
