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.
Syd, Beard
The producer and songwriter’s third album unfolds like a slow-burn romance that prioritizes subtlety over spectacle, though its unbothered warmth can feel frustratingly one-note.
The Durutti Column, Renascent
Sixteen long years since his last album, Vini Reilly makes a welcome return with a low-key album that’s still rich and lovely, unpretentious and open-hearted.
Shearwater, The New World
Jonathan Meiburg’s lyrical approach flits between apocalyptic soothsaying and naturalist poetry on his band’s ambitious and worldly eleventh album, which thrums with field recordings.
Sean Fennell
The Muncie Girls songwriter finds much more fertile ground in the internal on her solo debut.
This self-titled LP is a record of hits, misses, and left-field bangers—but it’s Shamir’s and Shamir’s only.
Alicia Bognanno’s third LP benefits from a newfound willingness to let go.
The band pick at every scab they’ve developed during their arduous last twelve months.
Isbell’s seventh album works best when it exists in the vagaries, where the lines of fact and fiction mix.
“MaDLO” is full of holes, but wholly unique.
“Loves” sees a veteran artist sauntering along his creative borders with glee.
