Wolf Alice take over the new issue of Dork – with five covers to collect

Wolf Alice have taken over the new issue of Dork, available to order today (Thursday 21st August) – with five cover variants to collect

Britain’s best band? No hyperbole, no hedging – that’s Wolf Alice, and this month they’re the sole cover stars of Dork. For September 2025 we’ve gone all in: one full band cover, plus four individual covers for Ellie, Joff, Theo and Joel. Because when a band is this good, one isn’t enough.

Inside, we go deep on their new album ‘The Clearing’. It’s the sound of a group sharpening every edge while refusing to lose the bite that made them essential in the first place. From the drive of ‘Bread Butter Tea Sugar’ to the widescreen lift of ‘White Horses’, it’s a record built for the biggest rooms without forgetting how to breathe. We talk craft, clarity and chemistry, and why Wolf Alice continue to be untouchable.

They’re not the only ones making some noise. Elsewhere in the issue you’ll find The Beaches tearing into their third album ‘No Hard Feelings’, Shame embodying the spirit of the gold hotpants with new record ‘Cutthroat’, and Black Honey turning clamps, panic and full-blown cinematic world-building into fourth-album brilliance on ‘Soak’. Nova Twins deliver ‘Parasites & Butterflies’, a heavy, wired testament to doing it on their own terms, while La Dispute unpack the five-act sprawl of ‘No One Was Driving The Car’. Mahalia talks freedom and the ‘Luvergirl’ era, and Good Charlotte remind us that “special” matters more than “big”.

Elsewhere, we report back from our own month-long birthday bash, the Dork 100, where everyone from Bastille to Sports Team, Divorce, Black Honey, Courting, Antony Szmierek and more joined us to celebrate 100 issues. There’s also space for The Dirty Nil, Pool Kids, Opus Kink, Billianne, Humour, Coach Party and The Armed – plus loads, loads more.

In Hype, we introduce Tom A. Smith, Tommy WA and Samxemma, while over in Incoming we deliver verdicts on albums from Conan Gray, CMAT, Royel Otis, Deftones, David Byrne, Reneé Rapp and more. Get Out takes us from Oasis at Wembley to Mad Cool’s sun-baked weekend and Jin’s O2 spectacle, and Hope Tala answers the only questions that truly matter on our back page.

You can order the new issue of Dork here, and it’ll dispatch before the 15th August 2025, or subscribe and get the print edition sent directly to your door every month here.

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