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.
Cult of Luna, In the Shadow of Your Shadow
The Swedish post-metal pioneers’ intense 10th full-length is among their darkest, hardest-hitting statements as it searches this scorched earth for shafts of rapturous light.
Sufjan Stevens, Worst Christmas Ever!
The Christmas album format finds vindication as the songwriter distills timeless compositions into a primer that cares about reverence and reflection as much as bombastic experimentation.
Katie Dey, Universal Will
Trading her typical hyperpop textures for heavy rock notes, the Australian pop experimentalist focuses her sights on the rise of technofascism in the wake of an online coming-of-age.
Mike LeSuer
Caroline White lists three albums she’s proud to share a label with.
Tyler, the Creator / photo by Carlo Cavaluzzi
With one mystery headliner yet to be announced, of course “Frank Ocean” is trending on Twitter.
The Chicago rapper defies cliché by addressing five different forms of love on his new EP.
The experimental producer lists ten tracks that helped her keep things fresh while writing “DEATH DRIVE.”
The exploratory new record from the Austin duo is out October 18 via Double Double Whammy.
Their “love song to tinnitus” introduces the Boston grunge outfit’s latest release, “Let the Shit House Burn Down.”
The retrospective collection kicks off with three reissued Haunted Graffiti LPs, all out October 25 on Mexican Summer.
The ambient new single from “Face Stabber” is paired with an eerie video.
The U.K. rapper stepped into the Like a Version booth to cover the 2005 Gorillaz single.
The Aussie jangle pop group describe their new album in not entirely un-Burroughs-like terms.
Jade Lilitri offers up ten tracks that informed the sounds of his band’s latest LP.
The single arrives ten days after their native U.K. elected a new PM. Weird!
Modern Baseball’s Jake Ewald gives us the play-by-play for his Americana-conscious solo project’s third album.
Our Associate Editor’s favorite pre-released singles, album deep cuts, and tracks by unfairly obscure artists from the past few weeks.
The Philly trio serenade dates in the video for the second single from “If you’re not afraid, I’m not afraid.”
Justin Vernon and crew talk the intimate nature of new album “i,i” in WeTransfer-produced film.
The “Babadook” writer/director is ready to terrify you all over again with her new film.
The jangly Glasgow band follow up their 2017 debut with a pair of tracks set for an August 30 release.
Celebrating (approximately) ten years of the songwriter’s first and most unpronounceable release.
The Tampa rapper/producer takes cues from past collaborators Daveed Diggs and JPEGMAFIA on the eleven experimental tracks.
