Whether you're raising a toast or just raising an eyebrow, here's our countdown of the albums that shaped 2025.
By Dork
Our Album of the Year is the sound of an artist stepping off the ledge not for spectacle, but for survival, and discovering, mid-air, what she’s really capable of.
By Ali Shutler
Whether you're raising a toast or just raising an eyebrow, here's our countdown of the albums that shaped 2025.
By Dork
Whether you're raising a toast or just raising an eyebrow, here's our countdown of the albums that shaped 2025.
By Dork
Whether you're raising a toast or just raising an eyebrow, here's our countdown of the albums that shaped 2025.
By Dork
From secret Glasto sets to dry-cleaner album shoots and the wildest dating stories imaginable, the HAIM sisters embraced a year of saying “fuck it” - and made their most freeing record yet.
Clean(ish), gym-going and living in Austin with a new crew of hyperpop misfits, Danny Brown's made 'Stardust': a wildly inventive, joy-soaked record that ditches the self-destruction without softening the weird.
Joe Keery lets DJO run wild on 'The Crux Deluxe'. Playful and unguarded, it marks the close of one chapter and the start of another.
By Ali Shutler
As Gainesville’s Fest buzzes around him, the Get Up Kids’ singer reflects on addiction, acceptance and making art for the right reasons again.
By Rob Mair
With 'Chasing the Chimera', Holden Jaffe - the man behind Del Water Gap - swaps stage lights for something far more exposing: total emotional honesty.
By Neive McCarthy
With ‘Body Broker’ out now, the Melbourne band unpack the feelings behind the songs, the live rush, and the debut album already lined up for next year.
By Felicity Newton
Luvcat, the goth-glam alias of Liverpool's Sophie Morgan, has built a world where doomed lovers, cinematic characters and twisted fairytales reign supreme.
By Steven Loftin
Back in New York and in full control, King Princess returns with 'Girl Violence', a raw third album that dives into sapphic heartbreak, healing and horny catharsis.
By Ciaran Picker
Kevin Parker has spent 15 years reshaping pop from behind the curtain. On ‘Deadbeat’, he dares to show the man behind the TAME IMPALA myth.
By Martyn Young
Their debut made them overnight icons. Their follow-up sees them digging deeper into grief, glamour, fury and friendship. ‘From The Pyre’ isn’t a reinvention of The Last Dinner Party: it’s them, turned all the way up.
By Ali Shutler
From chaotic dive bars to rooftop soul-searching, Militarie Gun's new album is more than just a sonic leap – it's a life-altering one.
By Rob Mair
Twelve years into her career, Sigrid is still obsessed with music – but this time, she's doing things her way.
By Ciaran Picker
After years of late nights, day jobs, and relentless touring, The Belair Lip Bombs' new album 'Again' feels like the start of something huge.
By Ciaran Picker
With fourth album ‘The Clearing’, Wolf Alice are not just holding their ground: they’re planting a flag, building a world, and proving once again that Britain’s best band still have everything left to give.
By Ali Shutler
Of all Dork’s litany of icons, legends, champions and heroes, CMAT remains in a league of her own. Smart, sharp, with a fearsome sense of humour and the kind of pop star personality that once made the superstars a little more super, she’s long been a beacon of brilliance.
By Jake Hawkes
The cult goth-punks return with ‘Sanguivore II’, a bombastic vampire sequel about love, damnation and the music industry.
By Jack Press
Medical torture devices, parasocial dread and neo-futurist visuals: Black Honey are building a full-blown cinematic universe where every unsettling detail matters.
By Ciaran Picker
Formed in Byron Bay and now based in Berlin, Parcels have spent the past decade building their reputation on harmony-driven grooves. With new album ‘LOVED’, they embrace a looser, more joyous sound.
By Neive McCarthy
The Beaches have spun late-night gossip, heartbreak and big dreams into a soundtrack for bad decisions.
By Dork
One of the most interesting, vocal and expressive stars of the last decade, Dom Harrison has already done it all. As he headlines the second edition of his very own annual festival, we find out why Yungblud has taken the brakes right off for his most ambitious era yet.
By Ali Shutler
Chance Smith on love songs, rough edges and life after rehab.
By Rob Mair
Jordan Dreyer had a vision - sprawling, intense and unsettling - and, to his surprise, La Dispute were all in.
By Alexander Bradley
After a year of sleepless touring and mental exhaustion, Nova Twins were thrown back into their bedrooms with a looming deadline. The result? Something raw, real and very, very loud.
By Ciaran Picker
After years of personal and professional turbulence, Mahalia found new creative freedom during a life-changing stay in Jamaica.
By Martyn Young
A little sweat, a lot of soul. What started in Bondi and spiralled through Byron Bay and LA has landed as ‘hickey’, a shimmering second album where Royel Otis stop overthinking and start saying exactly what they mean.
By Neive McCarthy
Fifteen years into his career, Alex G remains one of indie’s most enigmatic figures. With ‘Headlights’, his tenth album and first on a major label, he emerges with a brighter, bolder sound without sacrificing the quiet weirdness that made him a cult hero.
By Martyn Young
Everything Everything are dusting off the deep cuts as they hit All Points East and beyond.
By Ciaran Picker
With a shapeshifting album and a sold-out summer ahead, Fontaines D.C. are in their imperial phase. Grian Chatten talks touring, transformation and the art of letting go.
By Jake Hawkes
Fifteen years in, Bastille have outlasted most of their peers, defied an industry that loves to eat up the new big thing, and somehow made being weird in the mainstream work for them. As they take their Dork cover hat trick and return to the legendary 100 Club for A special DORK 100 celebration, they reflect on a career built on doing whatever the hell they wanted – and why they’re still hungry for more.
By Ali Shutler
From Liverpool club nights to dreams of Parisian fantasies, Luvcat drags us down the rabbit hole into her wonderfully warped world on debut album ‘Vicious Delicious’.
By Ciaran Picker
From their Dundalk border town roots to selling out Brixton Academy, The Mary Wallopers are reclaiming folk music's rebellious spirit one raucous show at a time.
By Jake Hawkes
They started with no plan, one song, and a shed. Now, Florence Road are about to become everyone’s favourite new band - and we’re going all-in.
By Abigail Firth
Seven years after their abrupt farewell, the post-hardcore revolutionaries find freedom in starting fresh.
By Alexander Bradley
Independent, outspoken and unapologetically British, AJ Tracey is crafting success on his own terms - and bringing others with him.
By Jake Hawkes
On their second album 'Earthkeeper', the Baltimore trio transform grief, rage and environmental anxiety into their most powerful statement yet.
By Dan Harrison
With his new album '4', Aitch crafts an unapologetic love letter to Manchester's M40, channelling classic hip-hop energy with modern swagger.
By Martyn Young
Chaos, charm and a whole lot of sunshine: swim school's Rock for People diary in photos.
By Dork
After stepping away at their peak in 2017, The Maccabees return to the stage in 2025 for All Points East with renewed perspective and the same magnetic chemistry that made them indie legends.
By Steven Loftin
Released into a world in turmoil, The 1975’s 'Notes On A Conditional Form' was messy-in-a-good-way, brilliant and overwhelmingly human. Five years on, it’s more vital than ever. To celebrate its anniversary, we’re republishing our original 2020 cover feature – in all its chaotic, confessional glory.
By Ali Shutler
Medieval banquets and murder ballads: Michelle Zauner sets an elaborately dark table for Japanese Breakfast’s most ambitious sonic gathering.
By Martyn Young
From indie discos to West End stages, Self Esteem’s Rebecca Lucy Taylor navigates the messy reality of becoming the artist - and person - she was meant to be.
By Martyn Young
As K-pop's newest powerhouse unveil their first full album, RIIZE are keeping it real while dreaming bigger than ever.
By Abigail Firth
Through exhaustion and revelation, Model/Actriz emerge with ‘Pirouette’, an album that transforms truth into art.
By Ciaran Picker
Trading post-punk intensity for folk-rock storytelling, the band's third album 'Forever Howlong' showcases an ambitious reinvention.
By Ciaran Picker
On her second album, Blondshell’s Sabrina Teitelbaum trades self-doubt for self-reflection, crafting snapshots of growth through a lens of radical honesty.
By Finlay Holden
After nearly a decade of friendship, two of indie rock's most distinctive voices unite to create a country record that challenges convention and champions authenticity
By Neive McCarthy
As global chaos reigns, Employed To Serve return with ‘Fallen Star’, a rallying cry for inclusivity that proves metal’s power to unite rather than divide.
By Ciaran Picker
In this Artist's Guide, The Driver Era take us on a trip through their new album, track by track.
With TV On The Radio on pause and 15 years of work stolen, the frontman found freedom in starting fresh with 'Thee Black Boltz'.
By Jack Press
On their debut album 'Drive To Goldenhammer', the East Midlands quartet craft a nostalgic roadmap through queerness, creativity and collective vulnerability
By Jack Press
Between crafting indie-pop bangers and keeping his already finished new album ‘Don’t Tell The Dog’ under wraps, James Marriott is mastering the art of surprising expectations.
By Abigail Firth
With 'Tsunami Sea', Courtney LaPlante and Spiritbox push beyond genre boundaries while diving deep into depression, belonging, and artistic freedom
By Ali Shutler
Between mental health revelations and queer awakening, the rising artist crafts an unflinching portrait of early adulthood.
By Dan Harrison
With her most experimental album yet dividing opinion, pop's fearless innovator discusses creative risks, mental health, and chasing understanding.
By Ali Shutler
From teenage jam sessions to touring with rock royalty, HotWax’s debut album captures lightning in a bottle as the trio embrace beautiful chaos.
By Ciaran Picker
Set for Saturday, April 12th, RSD 2025 promises to be the vinyl event of the decade.
By Andrew Wescott
As their landmark second full-length 'i like it when you sleep...' turns nine years old today (Wednesday 26th February), we're republishing our December 2016 Album of the Year cover feature with Matty Healy of The 1975.
By Ali Shutler
With their third album, Inhaler step boldly into uncharted territory, leaving their comfort zone behind to create their most ambitious and authentic record yet.
By Abigail Firth
From Years & Years to Eurovision to his bold solo debut 'Polari', pop's renaissance man explores identity, expression and the power of speaking your truth.
By Martyn Young
From classroom teacher to indie-dance pioneer, Antony Szmierek’s debut album transforms mundane service stations into portals of profound meaning and connection.
By Ciaran Picker
If buying concert tickets has always been a nerve-wracking race, in 2025 it’s also become a test of financial endurance.
By Andrew Wescott
HotWax, Sam Fender, the 1975, Wolf Alice - what new records are we expecting to make a splash in the next twelve months?
L.S. Dunes may have started as an experiment in remote collaboration, but their second album ‘Violet’ finds the supergroup operating at the peak of their collective powers.
By Alexander Bradley
Three decades in, and Wales' most vital band return with 'Critical Thinking', an album that turns their legendary scrutiny inward
By Martyn Young
Between nihilist abandon and deep introspection, Victoria Canal’s debut album ‘Slowly, It Dawns’ captures the beautiful confusion of finding yourself.
By Martyn Young
Dork's Hype List Tour 2025 headliners embody the best kind of chaos.
By Jake Hawkes
Through grief, joy and viral fame, Good Neighbours are crafting euphoric anthems for a generation seeking connection.
By Ali Shutler
