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.
Mandy, Indiana, URGH
The Manchester quartet’s second album sees them screaming personal and political crises into the void over a techno noise-rock kaleidoscope that arouses the cyber-punk apocalypse.
Sassy 009, Dreamer+
A concept album about a doomed romance in an alternate world, Sunniva Lindgård’s alt-pop debut is gripping in fragments but difficult to grasp as a whole.
Geologist, Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?
The debut solo album from Animal Collective’s Brian Ross Weitz is an entrancing experiment with the unusual sound of hurdy-gurdy at its highly stylized center.
Michael Duncan
On the Vancouver punks’ dynamic fourth album, growth is the name of the game.
Often built out of only one or two phrases, each of “Primitive”‘s tracks has something hypnotic at its core, reinforcing the adage that there is beauty in simplicity.
Guitarist/vocalist Hutch Harris’s wonderfully nasal tone and the band’s pessimistic Portland attitude models a perfect outlet for frantic frustrations and life’s bigger questions.
2016. HXLT self-titled cover (1200x)
It kind of makes you forget what G.O.O.D. music actually sounds like.
2016. Radiation City Synesthetica cover hi-res
“Synesthetica” lacks the overall drive, exploration, and charm that would make it radiant.
