I Let It In and It Took Everything is the second studio album by British metalcore band Loathe. It was released on 7 February 2020 through SharpTone Records. The album received positive reviews; Metal Hammer named it as the 12th-best metal album of 2020. Composition: Critics have categorised the album as metalcore, post-metal, shoegaze and djent. Ambient textures and segues outline much of the album, an element that would take center stage in their 2021 follow-up, The Things They Believe. Critical reception: Max Heilman of Riff Magazine called the album "a grand metalcore vision" and that it pushes "the boundaries of what heavy music can be while avoiding gimmicks altogether". Metal Hammer writer Remfry Dedman called it "impossible to pigeonhole". Kerrang! writer Jake Richardson, described the album as blending "their metallic crunch with ambient sounds, melodic guitars and elements of niche genres like shoegaze", and praising it for being able to "switch from vast sounding post-rock to chugging, dissonant metal with consummate ease". Sam Houlden of PunkNews described the album as "hardcore new romantic" due to its incorporation of "disparate, light and dark soundscapes". As well as moving between "pounding hardcore sections with tech-level syncopation, but also soaring, melodic chorus and post-chorus sections that take the song to a totally different place before the track culminates with an elongated electro-glitch-infused breakdown". In an article for Metal Hammer, the a