Hold Your Colour

Hold Your Colour is the debut studio album by the Australian drum and bass band Pendulum, released on 25 July 2005 and later reissued in 2007 by Breakbeat Kaos. The album was mastered by Stuart Hawkes at Metropolis in London.[1] The album features collaborations with artists such as the DJs Fresh and TC, the MCs $pyda and Fats, vocalists from bands Freestylers and Halogen, and guitarists from bands Karnivool and Concord Dawn, together with Peredur ap Gwynedd.

Hold Your Colour
Studio album by Pendulum
Released	25 July 2005
Recorded	2003–2005
Genre	Drum and bass breakbeat jungle
Length	79:49
Label	Breakbeat Kaos
Producer	Rob Swire Gareth McGrillen Paul Harding
Pendulum chronology
Hold Your Colour (2005) In Silico (2008)
Alternative cover
2007 reissue cover
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

Release

Five singles were produced from the album, including "Slam" / "Out Here", the first single by Pendulum to reach the top 40 in the UK Singles Chart.[2] In addition, a non-album single, "Blood Sugar" / "Axle Grinder", released on 18 June 2007, later replaced "Another Planet" and "Still Grey" on the reissue of Hold Your Colour due to its popularity.[3]

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.[4] A promotional LP contained also "Slam" / "Out Here".[5]

The album cover inspired the single cover for the later Pendulum release "Witchcraft".

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.[6] On 25 May 2008, it entered the top 40 of the UK Albums Chart for the first time, peaking at number 29 on 16 August.[2]

"Slam" was featured in the soundtrack for the video game MotorStorm on the PlayStation 3 console, and the Bipolar mix of "Hold your Colour" was featured on "FIFA Street 2", Dance Dance Revolution Universe on the Xbox 360 console and on the premiere episode of Sky1's Gladiators.[7][8] 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.[9]

Track listing

Original release

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Prelude"	0:52
2.	"Slam"	5:44
3.	"Plasticworld" (featuring Fats and TC)	6:21
4.	"Fasten Your Seatbelt" (featuring 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" (Pendulum vs. Fresh, featuring $pyda and 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 contains gaps of silence at the end of each track.[3]

2007 reissue

No.	Title	Length
13.	"Blood Sugar"	5:17
14.	"Axle Grinder"	4:10
Total length:		9:27

Vinyl

The vinyl version has a different track order and omits tracks that were previously released as singles, aside from "Hold Your Colour".[4]

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 Fats and TC)	D	6:21
5.	"The Terminal"	E	5:42
6.	"Sounds of Life" (featuring Jasmine Yee)	F	5:21
Total length:			33:58

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 guitar on "Hold Your Colour" Evan Short – guitar on "Still Grey" Matt White – songwriting and additional production on "Blood Sugar" Stuart Hawkes – mastering

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.[10]
• The track "Through the Loop" uses samples from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, and a small section of whale song.[10]
• The track "Hold Your Colour" uses an intro vocal sample from "Lycaeum", a song Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen made with Karl Thomas (better known later as drum and bass artist "ShockOne") and Jay Burns in Xygen, their former metal band.[11]
• 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.
• The track "Girl in the Fire" contains a sample from the 1991 song "The Choice is Yours (Revisited)" by Black Sheep.

Charts

Chart (2005)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[12]	77
UK Albums (OCC)[13]	29
UK Dance Albums (OCC)[14]	2
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[15]	10

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[16]	Gold	35,000^^
United Kingdom (BPI)[17]	Platinum	300,000^^
^^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Region	Release date	Format	Catalogue
United Kingdom	25 July 2005	12" LP	BBK002LP
			BBK002LPD
Various	1 August 2005	CD download	BBK002CD
	16 July 2007		BBK002CDR

References

1. Stuart Hawkes discography. Discogs. Retrieved on 29 July 2010.
2. Official Charts – Pendulum. OfficialCharts.com. Retrieved on 22 September 2008.
3. Pendulum (releases, by year). rolldabeats. Retrieved on 22 September 2008.
4. Pendulum (25 July 2005). Hold Your Colour. rolldabeats, BBK002LP.
5. Pendulum (25 July 2005). Hold Your Colour. rolldabeats, BBK002LPD.
6. Fukushima, Glenn (1 April 2008). Pendulum ready to swing towards North America. Reuters. Retrieved on 9 February 2009.
7. MotorStorm - soundtrack list Archived 23 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine. playstation.com (3 February 2007). Retrieved on 29 July 2010.
8. Reviews - Dance Dance Revolution Universe (Xbox 360). 1up.com (1 March 2007). Retrieved on 29 July 2010.
9. MotorStorm: Pacific Rift soundtrack Archived 8 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine. faqs.ign.com (13 October 2008). Retrieved on 29 July 2010.
10. Pendulum (19 May 2007). Hold Your Colour. Discogs, BBK002CDR.
11. Rob Swire's Twitter feed. Twitter (9 May 2010). Retrieved on 22 July 2010.
12. "ARIA Report: Week Commencing 30 January 2008" (PDF) (830). Australian Recording Industry Association. 30 January 2008. Retrieved 15 April 2019. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
13. "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
14. "Official Dance Albums Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
15. "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
16. "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2009 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 10 August 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
17. "British album certifications – Pendulum – Hold Your Colour". British Phonographic Industry. Select albums in the Format field. Select Platinum in the Certification field. Type Hold Your Colour in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.

External links

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