Loathe | Audiotree From Nothing

In the grand scheme of heavy music, it’s difficult to break away from the pack, let alone attract a devoted audience. It can feel like a shot in the dark, the ability to create a body of work at the right place, at the right time, but on the album “I Let It In And It Took Everything,” Loathe bridges the gap between uniqueness and impact. Many fans will find sometime familiar within the sonic palette created by Loathe—a la Deftones meets Tim Hecker meets Meshuggah—but it stands on its own, squashing allegations of staleness or repetition. Maybe it was the ethos stated by drummer Sean Radcliffe, “Only write for yourself, and never consider what other people think of it” that helped Loathe pull their sound from the creative ether. Or maybe it was being challenged by their peers, telling them their product was incomplete, that pushed them to rethink what it was to compose an album. As humans who struggle with self-critique and self-imposed high expectations, Loathe works as a unit in order to make d