Hold Your Colour

Pendulum | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 26, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Breakbeat Kaos
• ASIN: B000AQKUV8
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #719,755 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Prelude

2. Slam

3. Plastic World

4. Fasten Your Seatbelt

5. Through the Loop

6. Sounds of Life

7. Girl in the Fire

8. Tarantula

9. Out Here

10. Hold Your Colour

11. The Terminal

12. Streamline

13. Another Planet

14. Still Grey

Editorial Reviews

Hold Your Colour is Pendulum's debut album. With bold and diverse tracks, the album combines the trio's groundbreaking blend of heavy electronic funk, never-before-heard innovative sounds and 'real' musical elements to produce a monster of a long player, destined to break down genres and smash up charts worldwide. Breakbeat. 2005. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Get The Original (The Re-Issue Review), April 17, 2008

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JBizzle "Da Fizzle Shizzle, Dizzle" (Under A Rock) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hold Your Colour (reissue) (Audio CD)

This is NOT a review of the music, but of the actual CD's re-issue release itself.

Just so everyone knows this IS NOT Pendulum's "Eagerly anticipated 2007 sophomore album" as described by the Amazon editorial writer. If you're looking for their 2nd album check out "In Silico" released May 2008. This is mearly a re-issue (a lowsy one at that) of the original 2005 album "Hold Your Colour". Also the track listing is wrong on the description page here. So be aware

Let me start by saying I LOVE THE ORIGNAL VERSION OF THIS ALBUM Hold Your Colour!!! Screw 5 stars, it deserves 20 stars! Every single track is awesome & the album deserves to go down in history as an absolute must own for EVERYONE! My 3 star rating is for this re-issued version of this CD. A) the tracks are no longer seemless as they break where you can hear where they should be together. This isn't really an issue aside from where the intro leads into "Slam", there's like a 2 second pause between the 2 tracks & it really takes away from the energy of not only the song, but the album as a whole. B) they've replaced 2 of the tracks from the original ("Another Planet" & "Still Grey") with 2 new tracks "Blood Sugar" & "Axle Grinder". These new tracks aren't bad, but they just don't fit right at the end of the album, these should've been placed somewhere in the beginning or middle of the album. "Still Grey" on the other hand was/is an amazing track while at the same time closing the album nicely, it was a huge mistake replacing this track of all tracks. Bottom line, this reissue was rushed & therefore poorly produced & it shows.

This CD (like "Jungle Sound Gold") was released by the label "Breakbeat Kaos" as a last minute cash in since Pendulum left them. The group had nothing to do with the production or release of this paticular version of this CD (also like "Jungle Sound Gold"). My suggestion would be for all to skip this release & hunt down the original album Hold Your Colour. While it is a bit spendy now & somewhat hard to find, you'll be happy that you did.

P.S. If you must own this version of the album, get it at the Amazon.uk site for $10 (+shipping) versus the the $30+ dollars that they're charging here.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fasten Your Seatbelt!, November 23, 2005

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D. Price (West Palm Beach, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hold Your Colour (Audio CD)

I've never been compelled to write a review on Amazon--until now. Lately, not much in the world of Drum & Bass stands out to me. Finally, this debut CD from Pendulum has pushed the plateau up to an incredible new peak. This is the next level. I haven't been moved like this since the first Dieselboy mix I heard.

Each track on Hold Your Colour is wildly different, spanning the spectrum of DnB styles. There are even a couple of breaks tracks that put the finest Finger Lickin' artists to shame. With unique elements that I've never heard before, it's difficult to categorize some of these tracks--just hang on for the ride. Like the title of track 4, you'll need to "Fasten Your Seatbelt!"

There is not one second of lazy production on this disc. Astonishingly creative and jaw-dropping! It's been a long time since I've bought a CD where I love every damn track!

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Hold Your Colour, October 2, 2007

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J. Moran (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hold Your Colour (reissue) (Audio CD)

The music is great.

There were a couple problems though.

My disk arrived open (no plastic wrap) which was strange.

Also to quote the B.G Brereton review over at the UK Amazon site:

"I'm writing the review to warn potential buyers of the amateur mastering of this release of the CD. Every single track has a 2 second gap before it - including the tracks that are clearly supposed to be joined with the previous track! It's exactly like the CD has been burnt with standard home CD burning software with all the options set to their defaults. I don't know why the original release of the CD is no longer available new or why this version has been issued but if you're thinking of buying this then my advice would be to try to get the original version second-hand (eg through Amazon Marketplace) and hope that the mastering was better the first time around. "

I got the disk (the import), and found out the exact same thing as noted above (someone at breakbeak koas messed up the cd master by not properly fading the songs). If you know anything about mastering software, it's a sloppy mistake. They didn't even listen to it before burning the master to disk.

Also please note the song list is incorrect as noted here. Last two songs for the "new" import are Blood Sugar and Axle Grinder, not Another Planet and Still Grey.