Loathe return with the hard-edged psychedelia of ‘Fangs’

In just under a month, UK alternative group Loathe will return to unveil A Stranger To You; one of contemporary heavy music’s most mythologised albums. Coming six years after their second album I Let It In And It Took Everything, A Stranger To You comes in the wake of an album that influenced a wave of bands towards world domination. On 17th July, that influence will be redefined again – with A Stranger To You exhibiting six years of personal and collective growth both within the music and themselves within a magnum opus that spans a breadth of eclectic sounds and techniques. Loathe shared a prime example of that sonic growth in a brand new single, ‘Fangs’.

Opening to a glistening portal of synth tones, ‘Fangs’ is soon enveloped with a signature Loathe groove; unconventional in rhythm, but undoubtedly enticing. The track then makes way for a spacious psychedelia that integrates ambient atmospheres, reverberated acoustic guitars, and shades of R&B that provide the perfect balm to the song’s more direct opening refrain. Perfectly embodying the push-and-pull between the brash and immersive that Loathe have mastered across their output, ‘Fangs’ brings true innovation to the fore; fearlessly experimenting with a template that they helped to build years ago and unlocking something unique and above all else, truly creative in the process.

Easily the most adventurous work of Loathe’s career, A Stranger To You finds the band telling the story of the last six years within 14 staggeringly complex but rewarding beyond all measure cuts of alternative music. An album designed to ensure that each second without new music from the band has been worth the wait, Loathe has presented an attention to detail within A Stranger To You that will leave the listener uncovering layers of artistic brilliance long after the first play. 

Pre-order here.

“A Stranger To You” Tracklisting

1. Entrance
2. Block Of Flats
3. Fortress Down
4. Gemini
5. Nothing Like The Knife
6. Harder To Pretend
7.اثينا
8. Revenant
9. The Way It Breaks
10. Meet My Maker
11. Fangs
12. The Ladder
13. Gifted Every Strength
14. No Stranger To You…

A Stranger To You is, in many ways, a rarity in today’s single-driven musical landscape, opting to return to the gold standard of a methodically laid out, interconnected track sequence that provides an experience best consumed from start to finish. That experience will be open to all from July 17th; a chance to delve headfirst into the artistic evolution and creative rebirth of Loathe on A Stranger To You, an album that is destined to take its place at the pinnacle of heavy music’s pantheon of generational works.