Hold Your Colour

Hold Your Colour
Studio album by Pendulum
Released	25 July 2005 (see release history)
Recorded	2003-2005
Genre	Drum and bass, breakbeat, electronic rock
Length	79:49 (original release) 74:10 (2007 reissue) 33:58 (vinyl edition)
Label	Breakbeat Kaos (BBK002)
Producer	Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen, Paul Harding
Pendulum chronology
Hold Your Colour (2005) In Silico (2008)
Alternative cover
2007 reissue
Singles from Hold Your Colour
"Another Planet" / "Voyager" Released: 23 February 2004 "Back 2 You" / "Still Grey" Released: 22 March 2004 "Tarantula" / "Fasten Your Seatbelt" Released: 27 June 2005 "Slam" / "Out Here" Released: 19 September 2005 "Hold Your Colour" / "Streamline" Released: 13 February 2006 "Blood Sugar" / "Axle Grinder" Released: 18 June 2007

Hold Your Colour is the debut full-length album by Australian drum and bass band Pendulum. The album was mastered by Stuart Hawkes at Metropolis in London. It was released in 2005 and reissued in 2007 by Breakbeat Kaos. The album cover inspired the single cover for later Pendulum release "Witchcraft".

This album features collaborations with artists such as the DJs Fresh and TC, the MCs $pyda and Singing Fats, vocalists from bands Freestylers and Halogen, and guitarists from bands Karnivool and Concord Dawn, together with Peredur ap Gwynedd.

Release

Five singles were produced from the album, including "Slam" / "Out Here", the first single by Pendulum to reach the top forty in the UK Singles Chart. In addition, a non-album single , "Blood Sugar" / "Axle Grinder", released on 18 June 2007, was later appended to the reissue of Hold Your Colour due to its popularity.

The coverdesign of the album was done by Vince Peersman of www.foldesign.com, one of the most the most prominent graphic artists for drum 'n bass music covers.

Otherwise, the LP was released as a triple 12", and features, together with Hold Your Colour, all the tracks that did not appear on any single. A promotional LP contained also "Slam / Out Here".

Reception

The album received very positive critical attention in both Australia and the United Kingdom, becoming one of the best selling drum and bass albums of all time, along with New Forms by Roni Size. 225,000 copies of Hold Your Colour were sold in the UK. On 25 May 2008 it entered the top 40 of the UK Albums Chart for the first time, peaking at number 29 on the 16 of August.

"Slam" was featured in the soundtrack for the video game MotorStorm on the PlayStation 3 console, on Dance Dance Revolution Universe on the Xbox 360 console and on the premiere episode of Sky1'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. The track "Tarantula" was featured in the Australian television drama series Underbelly, in an episode of the UK series Skins and CSI: Miami, and in the soundtrack for the video game MotorStorm: Pacific Rift.

Track listing

Original release
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Prelude"	0:52
2.	"Slam"	5:44
3.	"Plasticworld" (featuring Singing Fats & TC)	6:21
4.	"Fasten Your Seatbelt" (featuring The Freestylers)	6:38
5.	"Through the Loop"	6:13
6.	"Sounds of Life" (featuring Jasmine Yee)	5:21
7.	"Girl in the Fire"	4:53
8.	"Tarantula" (featuring Fresh, $pyda & Tenor Fly)	5:31
9.	"Out Here"	6:07
10.	"Hold Your Colour"	5:28
11.	"The Terminal"	5:42
12.	"Streamline"	5:23
13.	"Another Planet"	7:38
14.	"Still Grey"	7:51
Total length:		79:49

Reissue

In the 2007 reissue, "Blood Sugar" and "Axle Grinder" took the place of "Another Planet" and "Still Grey". The reissue also erroneously contains gaps of silence at the end of each track, causing the album to lose its original sense of flow.

2007 reissue
No.	Title	Length
13.	"Blood Sugar"	5:17
14.	"Axle Grinder"	4:09
Total length:		09:26

Vinyl

The vinyl version has a different track order and omits tracks that were previously released as singles, aside from "Hold Your Colour".

Vinyl edition
No.	Title	Side	Length
1.	"Hold Your Colour"	A	5:28
2.	"Girl in the Fire"	B	4:53
3.	"Through the Loop"	C	6:13
4.	"Plasticworld" (featuring Singing Fats & TC)	D	6:21
5.	"The Terminal"	E	5:42
6.	"Sounds of Life" (featuring Jasmine Yee)	F	5:21
Total length:			33:58

Samples

• The tracks "Prelude", "Slam" and "Axle Grinder" use samples from the American television series The Twilight Zone. Samples similar to those in "Slam" are read aloud in "Rock Civilization" by Headhunterz.
• The track "Fasten Your Seatbelt" uses a sample from the song "Go Home Soundboy" by Buju Banton and Cocoa Tea, and a sample of Doctor Octopus from the film Spider-Man 2.
• The track "Through the Loop" uses samples from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, and a small section of whale song.
• The track "Hold Your Colour" uses an intro vocal sample from "Lycaeum", a song Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen made with Karl Thomas and Jay Burns (better known later as drum & bass duo "Shock One") in Xygen, their former band.
• The track "Another Planet" uses samples of Richard Burton from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds and a drum sample from the Megadeth song "Skin o' My Teeth".
• The track "Prelude" is used as a short sample in Los Angeles based radio station KIIS-FM.

Release history

Region	Release date	Format	Catalogue
United Kingdom	25 July 2005 (2005-07-25)	12" LP	BBK002LP
			BBK002LPD
Worldwide	1 August 2005 (2005-08-01)	CD, download	BBK002CD
	16 July 2007 (2007-07-16)		BBK002CDR

Chart performance

Charts (2008)	Peak position
ARIA Chart	40
UK Albums Chart	29

Personnel

Pendulum

• Rob Swire – vocals, guitar, synths, Rhodes, songwriting, production
• Gareth McGrillen – songwriting, production
• Paul Harding – songwriting, production

Brass section

• Pablo Mendlessohn – trumpet on "Plasticworld" and "Tarantula"
• James Morton – alto saxophone on "Plasticworld" and "Tarantula"
• Jonathan Shendy – tenor saxophone on "Plasticworld" and "Tarantula"
• Tim Smart – trombone on "Plasticworld" and "Tarantula"

Additional personnel

• Singing Fats – vocals on "Plasticworld"
• Tom Casswell – vocals, songwriting and additional production on "Plasticworld"
• Matt Cantor – vocals, songwriting and additional production on "Fasten Your Seatbelt"
• Aston Harvey – vocals, songwriting and additional production on "Fasten Your Seatbelt"
• Jasmine Yee – vocals on "Sounds of Life"
• Peredur ap Gwynedd – guitar on "Girl in the Fire"
• Dan "Fresh" Stein – songwriting and additional production on "Tarantula"
• Jonathan "Tenor Fly" Sutter – vocals on "Tarantula"
• Colin "$pyda" Griffith – vocals on "Tarantula"
• Andrew Goddard – guitar on "Hold Your Colour"
• Jon Stockman – bass on "Hold Your Colour"
• Evan Short – guitar on "Still Grey"
• Matt White – songwriting and additional production on "Blood Sugar"
• Stuart Hawkes – mastering

External links

• Hold Your Colour at Allmusic
• Hold Your Colour at Discogs
• The full Pendulum discography. Pendulum. Archived on 28 September 2008.