Genre Directory
Punk
Browse Dork's album & ep review coverage for Punk, plus artists and albums connected to the genre.
Recent Reviews
Ricochet
Rise Against
Rise Against still sound urgent, defiant and fully engaged: a band with purpose, not just volume.
WHO WILL LOOK AFTER THE DOGS?
PUP
The crowning glory of their peerless five-album run.
Devil Ultrasonic Dream
Teen Mortgage
A record that plays like The Damned gate-crashing a Black Mirror episode.
Who Let The Dogs Out
Lambrini Girls
A no-holds-barred punk record, combining 21st-century problems with classic 70s thrash-punk tropes.
State Champs
State Champs
It all feels a little too familiar.
Cartoon Darkness
Amyl and the Sniffers
A riotous punk manifesto.
Heaven :x: Hell
Sum 41
'Heaven :x: Hell' neatly splits its time between pop-punk and metal.
Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs
Alkaline Trio
The sound of a band returning to the peak of their power by doing what they do best.
152
Taking Back Sunday
It's an extraordinary album, an unexpected turn.
ONE MORE TIME…
blink-182
'ONE MORE TIME…' adds to blink-182's legacy.
Some Of It Was True
The Menzingers
The Menzingers have redefined what the band means as they transition into elder statesmen of the modern punk rock scene.
Losing What We Love
Knuckle Puck
Knuckle Puck have rediscovered themselves.
You're Welcome
Lambrini Girls
A series of searing and biting feral punk tracks that hit like a nuclear shockwave.
GET FUCKED
The Chats
Strap in, enjoy the ride and GET FUCKED.
Baby
Petrol Girls
Essential in a way so much music really isn’t, the message matters. ‘Baby’ delivers it perfectly.
Kings Of The New Age
State Champs
This album is everything pop-punk should be.
The Unraveling of PUP the Band
PUP
Ridiculous? Unquestionably. Genius? Quite possibly.
Harder Than It Looks
Simple Plan
The band fully embrace their own sonic identity.
Nowhere Generation
Rise Against
The band lament on themes of loss, isolation, and hopelessness.
Let The Bad Times Roll
The Offspring
Any suggestion The Offspring are about to run out of steam seems somewhat ridiculous.
