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FOR FANS OF:
JOY DIVISION, EAGULLS, ICEAGE

Docile Bodies "Rest"

Docile Bodies "Rest"

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THIS IS A PRE-ORDER. EXPECT THIS RECORD TO SHIP BY RELEASE DATE OF 10/23/2026
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Tilburg post-punk quartet Docile Bodies return with their sophomore LP "Rest," eight tracks that read like the empty hours of someone else's house — slower, more patient, and harder to console than their 2024 debut "Light Will Come Our Way." The band — Sjoerd Aarden, Tadzio van Bel, Hans Diks, and Merl van der Markt — trade catharsis for something willing to hold a chord or a line until it starts to ache. "Rest," in their own words, "listens closely to grief, not to explain it, but to sit quietly beside it."

The record sits in lineage with the chilled architectures of Joy Division and the blunt-force restraint of Iceage, but its register is its own. Lights flicker, rituals fail, tenderness and quiet rage share the same room without resolving each other. Produced and mixed by Wessel van den Broek and mastered by Wessel Oltheten, the album lingers in the in-between — the moment after goodbye, the pause before sleep, the places where memory presses harder than the present.

Pressed on two limited 12" vinyl variants with cover photography by Jón Helgi Palmáson and design by Travis Benson / Cowards Way, "Rest" is a record made by a band who've gotten more confident as they've gotten quieter.
PRESSING INFO:
‣ AQUA BLUE AND CLEAR HALF-AND-HALF 12" - 100 COPIES
‣ AQUA BLUE 12" - 150 COPIES
ALC-168
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