Customer Reviews
Amazing album, poorly mastered - By: Ikara, 01 Oct 2008 
This is more of a warning than a review. Basicallly, every track on the album has two seconds of silence at the end, including the first track "Prelude" which should seamlessly merge into "Slam". Other than this one instance it isn't that annoying, but if that kind of thing would irritate you, you may be better off looking for the original version of the album, which was mixed properly: Hold Your Colour
If you are looking to put the album on a computer or portable media player (iPod, etc.) there are workarounds for this. Once you have bought & ripped the album to your computer, either download a replacement copy of "Prelude" from the original, or edit the track yourself using a program like Audacity. In terms of whether this album is better or worse than the original, the two new tracks are different, & it is personal preference as to whether you will like them more than the original tracks.
It is a shame that the album is faulty, because other than that it is a brilliant piece of work. Every track is filled with energy, & is beautifully crafted. Some particular highlights include "Slam", "Fasten Your Seatbelts", "Sounds of Life", "Hold Your Colour" & "Streamline". However, in my opinion at least, there is not a bad track on the entire album.
Amazing work (as always) Pendulum.
Let down by Breakbeat Kaos / Metropolis.
Brilliant! - By: F. Beare, 16 Sep 2008 Amazing! I bought the original release some years back & loved it, but now it has been re-released with the inclusion of "Blood Sugar" & "Axel Grinder" it is even better than before & I for one didnt think that was possible! A must have!
what a load of rubbish! - By: Sarah Acourt, 04 Sep 2008 
Do not buy this version of the cd, go & get the original, theres stupid 2 second pauses inbetween the tracks & they've just taken two of the best tracks off the album & replaced it with crap ones.
Pendulum - Hold your colour - By: D. DAVIES, 10 Aug 2008 I bought this based on someone else's recommendation, & I have to say that although it's not a bad album, In Silico is much better. Sorry!
Like being on a plane! - By: Mr. Simon P. Daisley, 12 May 2008 
I've very strangely titled ths review as like being on a plane, just because some aspects of it are exactly that! When the album starts the plane is parked on the runway & the engines go down then everything just well.. takes off. You want to close your eyes but are just forced to submit & watch, just as the album opens you can't help just just sit listen or get up & dance like a looney depending on preference! Anyway dispensing with the metaphor, I was never a fan of drum & bass or any music of that kind. I thought that it was just for a certain group of people that was until me & my friend happened to find 'Hold your Colour' on a stone walll out in the middle of nowhere that my views on that music were changed perhaps forever. After we stuck it in the CD player we didn't know what to expect but then we did get addicted to it.
True some may say that its not proper drum & bass, the kind of stuff that you'd find hooded geniuses to be crafting in the basement of their dark & dingy North London flat but this album certainly is a gateway into alll of that. Pendulum are so sophisticated in 'Hold your Colour' that they even manage to make Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory sound good, thats in 'Through the Loop' by the way!
With the reissue last year even with the success of the original issue you'd think that Pendulum would make this new version even more accessable (if you could do such a thing) stick a few alternate takes of songs etc yet the only difference is that they have changed the last few tracks with new ones. The two in question being 'Blood Sugar' & 'Axle Grinder', in the broad sense Blood Sugar is the same story as Slam only with a different synth riff but still it does have knack of getting the crowd going. Axle Grinder is true to its name & does sound reminiscent of a car crash, a little atonal & uninteresting.
But to sum up, this album is a cracking good listen & I'm a self confessed bad dancer & I reallly did myself justice when I went to see them live, it is guaranteed to get you jumping up & down (whether you choose to admit it or not)!
So if in doubt, buy buy buy! You will be pleasantly surprised!
