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.
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.
Ween, 12 Golden Country Greats [30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
Embellished with over 20 unreleased demos and session outtakes, the brothers’ 1996 foray into country was as devoted to a single sound as they would ever be.
Stephan Boissonneault
The latest album from Naomie de Lorimier’s aquatic pop outfit taps into the sensation of lucid dreaming to express the grandeur of the natural world.
With the Blur percussionist’s debut album Radio Songs out now, we discuss going solo and the wide variety of extracurriculars he’s been involved with since the Britpop icons’ hiatus.
The Toronto-based noise rockers’ upcoming LP We Found This arrives October 21 via Mothland.
Sebastian Murphy discusses how the post-punks’ latest album was inspired by conspiracy theories, humankind’s troglodytic beginnings, and a country-western aesthetic.
The chimerical record’s experimental powwow, psychic jazz, and gritty no-wave punk ranges from meditative to terrifying.
The single follows the Latvian neo-psych songwriter’s signing to Mothland.
The post-everything krautrockers’ sophomore album is a towering release fit for nebulous contemplation and feelings of foreboding astral projection.
The freakout post-punk group’s debut EP is the perfect musical cocktail of the appealingly bizarre.
Grian Chatten discusses the seediest parts of the band’s new album and his ever-changing relationships with Dublin and London.
“Subterranea,” the second album from the icy-hot psychedelic post-punks, arrives March 25 via Mothland.
The sonically crippling debut EP from the avant-punk five-piece feels like a hematic out-of-body experience.
