Tame Impala, Djo and King Princess cover the new October issue of Dork - order now
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The new issue of Dork is here - available to order today (Friday 19th September) - and we’ve gone big. For October 2025, three covers, three artists in the thick of defining moments, refusing to stick to the established paths: Tame Impala, Djo and King Princess.
Tame Impala returns with ‘Deadbeat’, the first album of Kevin Parker’s post-psych era. It’s scrappier, heavier, more instinctive than the kaleidoscopic dreamworlds that made his name. We get into how he built it, why he’s tearing up his own blueprint, and what happens when an artist with nothing left to prove decides to do something unexpected instead. Also, he’s trying to be a free blob. His words. Not ours.
Djo returns to the cover of Dork with ‘The Crux Deluxe’. Where his breakthrough ‘Crux’ positioned Joe Keery as more than just another actor with a side-project, the expanded companion piece pushes harder — stranger structures, sardonic humour, big hooks warped into new shapes. We sit down to talk about how to follow a cult classic, why reinvention keeps him moving, and where Djo goes next.
And then there’s King Princess with ‘Girl Violence’. An album that’s all sharp edges and big choruses, it refuses to smooth anything down. Funny, furious and defiantly vulnerable, it’s her boldest yet. Mikaela Straus unpacks the chaos, the confidence, and what it means to cut through the noise on her own terms.
Tame Impala returns with ‘Deadbeat’, the first album of Kevin Parker’s post-psych era. It’s scrappier, heavier, more instinctive than the kaleidoscopic dreamworlds that made his name. We get into how he built it, why he’s tearing up his own blueprint, and what happens when an artist with nothing left to prove decides to do something unexpected instead. Also, he’s trying to be a free blob. His words. Not ours.
Djo returns to the cover of Dork with ‘The Crux Deluxe’. Where his breakthrough ‘Crux’ positioned Joe Keery as more than just another actor with a side-project, the expanded companion piece pushes harder — stranger structures, sardonic humour, big hooks warped into new shapes. We sit down to talk about how to follow a cult classic, why reinvention keeps him moving, and where Djo goes next.
And then there’s King Princess with ‘Girl Violence’. An album that’s all sharp edges and big choruses, it refuses to smooth anything down. Funny, furious and defiantly vulnerable, it’s her boldest yet. Mikaela Straus unpacks the chaos, the confidence, and what it means to cut through the noise on her own terms.
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