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.
JWords, Sound Therapy
True to its name, this LP invites the listener to revitalize and reflect as the Brooklyn-based producer reconnects with her emceeing roots and wraps us in soft synthscapes.
Loraine James, Detached From the Rest of You
A stab at an “IDM popstar album,” the Londoner’s sixth LP under her own name sees her paring her palette down to the core essentials for what is perhaps her most understated effort yet.
Cola, Cost of Living Adjustment
While they continue to excel at lo-fi post-punk, the Canadian outfit’s third album mixes the angularity and simplicity of their previous LPs with something much lusher and richer.
Mischa Pearlman
2014. Robyn Hitchcock “The Man Upstairs” album art
Recorded and mixed in a week by legendary producer Joe Boyd (Pink Floyd, Nick Drake), Robyn Hitchcock’s latest LP—his twentieth solo record in a thirty-plus-year career—is a collection of covers and originals.
This third record from musical duo (and siblings) Angus & Julia Stone wasn’t meant to be.
2014. Drenge’s self-titled album art
Yet while the brothers’ compositions are monolithic—and almost monotone—in their post-grunge drudginess, they’re also full of verve.
