I Let It In and It Took Everything

I Let It In and It Took Everything is the second studio album by Loathe, of Liverpool, released on 7 February 2020 through SharpTone Records. Critics have filed it as metalcore, post-metal and djenty nu metalcore. It works on the contrast between clean and unclean vocals, over downtuned guitars, low-pitched atmospherics and shoegaze guitar textures. A Metal Hammer piece said the record opens the band's sound up to lush, shoegaze textures and shimmering guitars. The eleventh song, "Heavy Is the Head That Falls with the Weight of a Thousand Thoughts", borders on black metal. Several writers compared the album to Deftones, citing frontman Kadeem France's vocal resemblance to Chino Moreno. The reception was strong. Max Heilman of Riff Magazine called it a grand metalcore vision that pushes the boundaries of what heavy music can be while avoiding gimmicks altogether. Remfry Dedman in Metal Hammer called it impossible to pigeonhole and thought it would be instrumental in putting Loathe on the map as one of the most exciting bands to emerge from the British underground in a long time. Jake Richardson of Kerrang! described it as blending their metallic crunch with ambient sounds, melodic guitars and elements of niche genres like shoegaze.