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Hold Time
Studio album by M. Ward
Released	February 17, 2009 (2009-02-17)
Genre	Alternative, folk
Length	42:40
Label	Merge, 4AD
Producer	M. Ward
M. Ward chronology
To Go Home EP (2007) Hold Time (2009) A Wasteland Companion (2012)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	79/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Robert Christgau
Consequence of Sound
Drowned in Sound
KPSU
Pitchfork	6.8/10
PopMatters
Rolling Stone
Slant Magazine
Spin
Tiny Mix Tapes

Hold Time is the sixth proper studio album from M. Ward, released on February 17, 2009. Hold Time is the follow-up to his 2006 album Post-War and its companion EP To Go Home in 2007.

Hold Time includes guest performances by Jason Lytle of the band Grandaddy, Lucinda Williams, Tom Hagerman of DeVotchKa, and She & Him co-contributor Zooey Deschanel. The album includes a cover of the Buddy Holly song "Rave On". A streaming preview was made available through NPR before the album's release. M. Ward also made an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman on February 17, 2009.

Track listing

1. "For Beginners" – 2:47
2. "Never Had Nobody Like You" (Featuring Zooey Deschanel) – 2:26
3. "Jailbird" – 2:31
4. "Hold Time" – 3:05
5. "Rave On" (Featuring Zooey Deschanel) (Norman Petty, Bill Tilghman, Sonny West) – 3:35
6. "To Save Me" (Featuring Jason Lytle)– 3:01
7. "One Hundred Million Years" – 2:11
8. "Stars of Leo" – 3:18
9. "Fisher of Men" – 3:12
10. "Oh Lonesome Me" (Featuring Lucinda Williams) (Don Gibson) – 6:05
11. "Epistemology" – 3:49
12. "Blake's View" – 2:29
13. "Shangri-La" – 2:20
14. "Outro (AKA: I'm a Fool to Want You)" (Joel Herron, Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf) – 3:47

Personnel

• M. Ward – voice, guitar, keyboards, bass, string arrangements
• Mike Coykendall – bass, percussion
• Adam Selzer, Jordan Hudson, Rachel Blumberg, Than Luu – percussion
• Peter Broderick, Tom Hagerman – strings, violins
• Bill Ritchie – upright bass
• Mike Mogis – percussion, bells, mandolin, keyboards
• Dave Campbell – cello
• Allison Stewart – viola
• Elin Palmer – violin
• Zooey Deschanel – vocals on "Never Had Nobody Like You" and "Rave On"
• Jason Lytle – vocals, keyboards, and guitar on "To Save Me"
• Lucinda Williams – vocals on "Oh Lonesome Me"

Charts

References

1. "Hold Time by M. Ward". Metacritic. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
2. Hold Time at AllMusic
3. Christgau, Robert. "Hold Time". Robert Christgau.
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5. "Album Review: M. Ward - Hold Time / Releases / Releases // Drowned in Sound". Archived from the original on 2019-10-24. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
6. "Hold Time- M. Ward | KPSU". Archived from the original on 2009-05-28. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
7. "Hold Time | Pitchfork". Archived from the original on 2009-02-19. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
8. "M. Ward: Hold Time < Music | PopMatters". Archived from the original on 2009-02-19. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
9. Rollingstone
10. "Review: M. Ward, Hold Time". Slant Magazine. March 2009.
11. "M. Ward, 'Hold Time' (Merge)". 4 February 2009.
12. "Music Review: M. Ward - Hold Time".
13. "Exclusive First Listen: M. Ward's 'Hold Time'". NPR. 12 January 2009. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
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21. "M. Ward Chart History (Top Tastemaker Albums)". Billboard.

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