Hold Time (album)

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Hold Time
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 17, 2009 (2009-02-17)
Genre Alternative, folk
Length42:40
Label Merge, 4AD
Producer M. Ward
M. Ward chronology
To Go Home EP
(2007)
Hold Time
(2009)
A Wasteland Companion
(2012)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 79/100 [1]
Review scores
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AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Robert Christgau Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg [3]
Consequence of Sound Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Drowned in Sound Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [5]
KPSUStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Pitchfork 6.8/10 [7]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Spin Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [11]
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Hold Time is the sixth proper studio album from M. Ward, released on February 17, 2009. Hold Time is the follow-up to his 2006 album Post-War and its companion EP To Go Home in 2007.

Contents

Hold Time includes guest performances by Jason Lytle of the band Grandaddy, Lucinda Williams, Tom Hagerman of DeVotchKa, and She & Him co-contributor Zooey Deschanel. The album includes a cover of the Buddy Holly song "Rave On". A streaming preview was made available through NPR before the album's release. [13] M. Ward also made an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman on February 17, 2009.

Track listing

  1. "For Beginners" – 2:47
  2. "Never Had Nobody Like You" (Featuring Zooey Deschanel) – 2:26
  3. "Jailbird" – 2:31
  4. "Hold Time" – 3:05
  5. "Rave On" (Featuring Zooey Deschanel) (Norman Petty, Bill Tilghman, Sonny West) – 3:35
  6. "To Save Me" (Featuring Jason Lytle)– 3:01
  7. "One Hundred Million Years" – 2:11
  8. "Stars of Leo" – 3:18
  9. "Fisher of Men" – 3:12
  10. "Oh Lonesome Me" (Featuring Lucinda Williams) (Don Gibson) – 6:05
  11. "Epistemology" – 3:49
  12. "Blake's View" – 2:29
  13. "Shangri-La" – 2:20
  14. "Outro (AKA: I'm a Fool to Want You)" (Joel Herron, Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf) – 3:47

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2009)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [14] 33
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [15] 31
US Billboard 200 [16] 31
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard) [17] 7
US Digital Albums (Billboard) [18] 6
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [19] 1
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [20] 10
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [21] 2

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