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- Summary: The singer-songwriter releases his latest solo album featuring guests such as The Decemberists' Rachel Blumberg, Lucinda Williams, DeVotchKa's Tom Hagerman, and Zooey Deschanel.
- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative, Singer-Songwriter
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Top Track
Never Had Nobody Like You | |
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Well, since time had a mind I've been lazy And times before that I was cruel And times before that I was mean, I was mad Honey, I ain't never had... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 29 out of 31
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Mixed: 2 out of 31
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Negative: 0 out of 31
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Hold Time does, in fact, feel timeless, a musical wanderer's dusty, train-hopping tour through folk, blues, and country.
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FilterHold Time marks Ward's third, and best chance to skip the three-peat pattern for sneaking under the radar with his name near the top. [Winter 2009, p.92]
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Under The RadarHis music makes you think slowly, all the better to ponder the ample fruits of this profound album. [Winter 2009, p.76]
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UncutThe album's leitmotif is a lush, dreamy string sections, which bring a gorgeous poignancy not only to the metaphysical songs, but also his radical reworkings of a pair of '50s rockers. [Mar 2009, p.81]
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The details sometimes outshine the songs: Lyrics about love come off as worn, and lyrics about God seem lifted from Sunday school.
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Ward still sounds most himself when he gets lost in his own world.
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Hold Time goes one step further by drowning the whole caboodle in a bizarre new sound that incorporates cheesy synthetic-sounding strings, a hint of Phil Spector as well as that resolutely unpretty croak.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 11
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Mixed: 1 out of 11
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Negative: 0 out of 11
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MichaelHAug 19, 2009
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ChadSFeb 20, 2009
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BobPApr 17, 2009A funky Buddy Holly - awesome!
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EdDFeb 18, 2009
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May 14, 2013
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JonGJun 11, 2009An amazing album-anyone who thinks the strings are fake needs to check him out live. This is the real deal.
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JesscoWSep 11, 2009
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