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.
Brandon Flowers, Thrasher
The Killers frontman’s third solo album achieves a past-perfect C&W sound and earnest, emotional delivery when it isn’t weighed down by Springsteen homage.
Lambchop, Punching the Clown
Kurt Wagner’s project returns to its most unvarnished form on his 17th album as he mourns the eerie grace of America’s flyover country through haunting, unadorned arrangements.
Julia Holter, Materia
The LA-based art-pop composer’s technical mastery is front-and-center on this latest project as she transforms emotions through symbolic language and melody.
Tim Sommer
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.
This re-release presents a band that’s palatably gleeful to have figured out their formula with an astonishingly cohesive and weirdly poppy picture of a Cold War–fogged world.
Poised, exotic, and engaging from start to finish, the English jangle-pop outfit’s unexpected delight of a 17th studio album is a magical soundtrack for this uncertain spring.
The genre-hopping fifth LP from Verity Susman and Matthew Simms is more ornate and ambitious than their earlier material, though ultimately the whole is lesser than the sum of the parts.
