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.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Live God
This concert album is a striking time capsule of a veteran rock group in complete control as a unit during their recent global tour, cutting stadium bombast with a gospel reverence.
Depeche Mode, Memento Mori: Mexico City
The live album tied to the new-wave icons’ new concert film shows how a lifelong band persists through loss while maturing their dusky music and a deep connection to their audience.
Prince & The Revolution, Around the World in a Day [40th Anniversary Edition]
Besides its crystal-clear sound, the draw for this expanded singles collection is its curios such as the 22-minute “America” and Prince’s serpentine contribution to the We Are the World album.
Douglas Menagh
Recalling early-’00s pop-punk, the band’s third record creates an experience that’s new and surprising yet familiar and comforting at the same time.
The noise rockers’ 6th album expands upon the electronic, warehouse-rave-set, live sound introduced on last year’s “Hologram” EP.
The split will also get a vinyl release via Suicide Squeeze on February 11.
On her first solo albums since 2012, the Canadian songwriter crafts a visceral feeling of joy and camaraderie with the help of her backing band.
Stripped of textured guitars and big sounds characteristic of her past output, Rundle leans into singer-songwriter qualities reminiscent of Nick Drake or Sibylle Baier.
The songwriter’s debut single is out now via Arts & Crafts.
On Jones’ funhouse follow-up to his psych-rock debut, each interrelated song serves as a madcap one-man show within a cosmic, comic drama.
The Tokyo-based instrumental post-rockers’ 11th album is an emotional journey that stirs the psyche with its meditative qualities.
The PNW-based group achieves a rustic and pastoral quality landing somewhere between black metal and something more otherworldly.
This reissue of the band’s 2014 debut gives new focus and meaning to details from the original release.
Witnessing Anika’s evolution from her debut to sophomore album is like experiencing the world go from black and white to color.
Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink’s first record in a decade proves they can seamlessly pick up from where they left off.
The shapeshifting group’s second album of 2021 is straight up psychedelic from start to finish.
The posthumous release from the late Suicide singer is a time capsule of the industrial sounds of ’90s NYC.
The debut record from Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden feels both familiar and new, sounding classical yet edgy.
Like a memoir, “Live at Levitation” tells the story of The Black Angels on the rise.
