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 Beach Boys, We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years [Super Deluxe Edition]
Focusing on the band’s mid-’70s run (and its outtakes), this package is among the oddest, most experimental, and most fulfilling in Beach Boys box history.
The Black Heart Procession, 1 [Reissue]
This remastered re-release of the duo’s haunting, melancholy 1998 debut serves as a brilliant reintroduction to a criminally underappreciated band.
hemlocke springs, the apple tree under the sea
Naomi Udu’s debut album soundtracks her journey of self-discovery through her own version of heaven and hell in a glitch-pop take on Paradise Lost and Dante’s Inferno.
Connor McInerney
The bonus LP of B-sides provides a sense of completion to Olsen’s “All Mirrors” era, although the set as whole feels a bit uneven.
The EP’s subject matter is thornier than past efforts’, leading to songwriting that pulls fewer punches.
DIRTY PROJECTORS
Longstreth also details his love of bossa nova and the ever-fluctuating definition of what Dirty Projectors really is.
Much of the signature grime has worn off, revealing an innovative—though not necessarily boundary pushing—shine.
