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.
Anna Calvi, Is This All There Is?
The British songwriter returns with a four-song EP defined by theatrical arrangements and an actorish guest list featuring Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson, Perfume Genius, and Matt Berninger.
Various artists, Red Xerox: Chicago Youth Beat 2020-2025
Spotlighting the diversity of Chicago’s underground scene, this comp is as much a symposium for genre-defying trailblazers as it is a no-skips playlists capturing the city’s budding youth-beat movement.
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.
Margaret Farrell
On “Evil Genius,” Gucci’s raps about his past are piled with repetitive tropes and uncreative imagery.
Finding a balance between joy and self-seriousness, this is the quartet’s finest and most decadent album to date.
“Aviary” walks like a duck and talks like a duck, in album terms, anyway, but the more you pay attention, the less it fits in.
The music industry, like history, repeats itself, which is why Greta Van Fleet feels deceptively refreshing—at least to talk about.
The American rap group—or boy band, if you ask them—have found the right balance of vulnerability and abrasive freneticism.
“Sweetener” is a pop remedy for anxiety, while also explicitly detailing its crippling nature.
Ross from Friends’ debut indulges in humor and the minutiae of legacy, handling the details with care.
“Hive Mind” solidifies The Internet’s sound as a newly formed molecule, sharing skills and attributes like electrons in a covalent bond.
More playful than cannibalistic, Jenny Hollingworth and Rosa Walton want you to join them in the supermarket of their dreams.
Parquet Courts are practicing a kind of self-care: the self-care of rebellion, of questioning, of not taking things at face value.
Tinashe is confident and proud, but at the end of thirty-six minutes there doesn’t seem to be a clear understanding of who she is.
A hodgepodge of contemplations on love at its best and worst.
Over fortified vocal harmonies, punching rock drum beats, and growling guitars that ring like fire alarms, Dream Wife have conceived a pointed but fun debut.
