''Hold Your Colour'' is the debut studio album by the Australian

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band

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, released on 25 July 2005 and later reissued in 2007 by

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. The album was mastered by Stuart Hawkes at Metropolis in

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. The album features

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s with artists such as the DJs

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and TC, the MCs $pyda and Fats,

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and

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, and

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s from bands

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and

Concord Dawn Concord Dawn is a New Zealand drum and bass group, active since mid-1999, consisting of Matt Harvey (aka Matty C). Until 2010, Evan Short was one half of the group. They were courted by local electronic music label Kog Transmissions and release ...

, together with

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Release

Five singles were produced from the album, including " Slam" / "Out Here", the first single by Pendulum to reach the top 40 in the

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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. The album feat ...

", all the tracks that did not appear on any single.

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A promotional LP contained also "Slam" / "Out Here". The album cover inspired the single cover for the later Pendulum release "

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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 ''

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'' by

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. 225,000 copies of ''Hold Your Colour'' were sold in the UK. On 25 May 2008, it entered the top 40 of the

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for the first time, peaking at number 29 on 16 August. "

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" was featured in the soundtrack for the video game ''

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'' on the

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console, and the Bipolar mix of "Hold your Colour" was featured on "

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", ''

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'' on the

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console and on the

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episode of

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's ''

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''. It has also been picked up by the relaunched ''

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'' as an outro to the show and as a precursor to advertising breaks. The track "

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" was featured in the Australian television drama series ''

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'', in an episode of the UK series '' Skins'' and ''

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'', and in the soundtrack for the video game '' MotorStorm: Pacific Rift''.

Track listing

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. "Plasticworld" is also written as "Plastic World"

Vinyl

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

Personnel

Pendulum *

Rob Swire Robert Swire-Thompson (born 5 November 1982) is an Australian musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and DJ, best known as the founder and vocalist of the drum and bass and electronic rock band Pendulum (drum and bass band), Pendulum, a ...

– vocals, guitar, synths,

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, songwriting,

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*Gareth McGrillen – songwriting, production *Paul Harding – songwriting, production Brass section *Pablo Mendlessohn – trumpet on "Plasticworld" and "Tarantula" *James Morton –

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on "Plasticworld" and "Tarantula" *Jonathan Shendy –

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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" *

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– 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" *

– 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" *

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– guitar on "

" *

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– 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

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''. Samples similar to those in "Slam" are read aloud in "

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" by

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. * The track "Fasten Your Seatbelt" uses a sample from the song "Go Home Soundboy" by

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and

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, and a sample of

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from the film ''

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''.

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'', and a small section of

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. * 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 "

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") and Jay Burns in Xygen, their former metal band.Rob Swire's Twitter feed
''Twitter'' (9 May 2010). Retrieved on 22 July 2010. * The track "Another Planet" uses samples of Richard Burton from ''

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'' and a drum sample from the

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song "

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". * The track "Prelude" is used as a short sample in

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based radio station

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. * The track "Girl in the Fire" contains a sample from the 1991 song "The Choice is Yours (Revisited)" by Black Sheep.

Charts

Certifications

Release history

References

External links

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The full Pendulum discography

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