- Hold Your Colour
Infobox Album
Name = Hold Your Colour
Type = studio
Artist = Pendulum
Released = flagicon|UK 25 July 2005
Recorded =
Genre =Drum and bass ,electronica
Length = 79:49 (2005 version)
74:10 (2007 version)
Label =Breakbeat Kaos
Producer =
Reviews =
This album = "Hold Your Colour"
(2005)
Next album = "In Silico"
(2008)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = studio
Lower caption = 2007 album cover"Hold Your Colour" is the 2005 debut album by Pendulum. The album drew very positive critical attention in both the
United Kingdom andAustralia , becoming one of the best selling drum and bass albums of all time. It was reissuedJuly 16 ,2007 with the new single, "Blood Sugar / Axle Grinder ", taking the place of "Another Planet" and "Still Grey". OnMay 25 ,2008 it entered the top 40 of theUK Albums Chart for the first time, peaking at number 35.The album features collaborations with
The Freestylers , Fats & TC, Jasmine Yee and Fresh, $pyda & Tenor Fly. The album's title track features guitar and bass by Drew Goddard and Jon Stockman of Perth bandKarnivool ."Slam" was featured in the soundtrack for the video game "
MotorStorm " on thePlaystation 3 console, "Dance Dance Revolution Universe " on theXbox 360 console and on the premier episode of Sky One's "Gladiators". It has also been picked up by the relaunched "Nine's Wide World of Sports " as an outro to the show and as a precursor to advertising breaks.Recently, the track "Tarantula" was featured in the Australian television drama series "Underbelly" and the target render trailer for "". The same song was also recently featured in an episode of the UK series "Skins".Most tracks came from singles. "Slam" and "Out Here" from "Slam/Out Here - Single", "Tarantula" and "Fasten Your Seatbelt" from "Tarantula/Fasten Your Seatbelt - Single", "Still Grey" from "Back 2 You/Still Grey - Single", "Another Planet" from "Another Planet/Voyager - Single" and "Steamline" as a B-Side to the "Hold Your Colour (Remix) - Single".
Track listing
Original release
#"Prelude" – 0:52
#"Slam" – 5:44
#"Plasticworld" (featuring Fats & TC) – 6:21
#"Fasten Your Seatbelt" (featuring TheFreestylers ) – 6:38
#"Through the Loop" – 6:13
#"Sounds of Life" (featuring Jasmine Lee) – 5:21
#"Girl in the Fire" – 4:53
#"Tarantula" (featuring Fresh, $pyda & Tenor Fly) – 5:31
#"Out Here" – 6:07
#"Hold Your Colour" – 5:28
#"The Terminal" – 5:42
#"Streamline" – 5:23
#"Another Planet" – 7:38
#"Still Grey" – 7:512007 re-issue
- "Blood Sugar" – 5:17
- "Axle Grinder" – 4:09
Vinyl edition
The vinyl version has a different track order and omits tracks that were previously released as singles. It is a 3 LP
triple album .:A. "Hold Your Colour" – 5:28:B. "Girl in the Fire" – 4:53:C. "Through the Loop" – 6:13:D. "Plasticworld" (featuring Fats & TC) – 6:21:E. "The Terminal" – 5:42:F. "Sounds of Life" (featuring Jasmine Yee) – 5:21
amples
* The track "Through the Loop" uses samples from the 1971 film "
Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory " and also a small section of Whale Song.
* The track "Fasten Your Seatbelt" uses samples from the film "Spider-Man 2 ".
* The track "Another Planet" uses samples of Richard Burton from Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds " and drum samples from theMegadeth song "Skin o' My Teeth ".
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