Basingstoke, UK’s noisy hardcore act ABSENTEES are teaming up with Smithsfoodgroup DIY label from The Netherlands (Employed To Serve, God Mother, Second Guessing and Drawbacks) for their EP ‘Escape/Silence’, to be released on August 30th! The offering sees the band (featuring ex-PARISO and current MODERN RITUALS members) embrace a more raw sound than on previous release, finding new energy in tracking all the instruments live at bassist Tom Hill’s studio The Bookhouse. Shot by Thomas Lisle Coe-Brooker, the video for one of the songs can be seen below! ABSENTEES will play an EP release show at Flashback Records’ Shoreditch store with their friends in Funeral Parlour (ex-Scared Of Everything) on August 30th (RSVP here). Vocalist Dan Strachan commented on both tracks ‘...