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"A year on from the release of their astonishing second album I Let It In And It Took Everything, Liverpudlian alt.metallers Loathe should have been on the mother of all victory tours, giving their complex, cathartic sound full life in packed live arenas around the world. Instead, they’re stuck at home, frustrated by a stratospheric trajectory so cruelly cut short, and pent up more than ever having not yet truly expunged the tribulations of that record’s tortuous creation alongside their fans. Rather than dipping into defeatism, though, they’ve adopted and plumbed the aspect of their sound best suited to life in lockdown.
Featuring 12 ambient, instrumental recordings, The Things They Believe offers an extension of the world of I Let It In… and a significant addendum to the broader Loathe universe. Album 2.5, if you will. Aesthetically and thematically, it fits the bill. That purposefully ambiguous title was borrowed from the script of 2007 vampire thriller 30 Days Of Night, but it perfectly matches their themes of twisted reality and human interrelationship. Likewise, the expressionist, experimental, synth-heavy sounds of tracks like Don’t Get Hurt and Love In Real Time ring like the distended echoes of what’s come before. Even when The 1975 saxophonist John Waugh weighs in he feels like part of the furniture that just hadn’t been rolled-out before." - Kerrang
Tracklist
Side A:
1.The Things They Believe
2.Don’t Get Hurt
3.Do you
4.Love In Real Time
5.The Year Everything And Nothing Happened
6.-remember
7.You Never Came Back
8.Black Marble
Side B:
1.Keep Fighting The Good Fight
2.Perpetual Sunday Evening
3.the Moment?”
4.The Rain Outside…