Pendulum - Hold Your Colour (Album Review)

Ladies and gentlemen... fasten your seatbelts. It's time for the Pendulum discography review to get started.
Listen: • Pendulum - Hold Your C... (this is the maybe unofficial mix I have on my iPod)
Favorite Tracks: Prelude, Slam, Plastic World, Fasten Your Seatbelts, Through The Loop, Sounds of Life, Girl In The Fire, Tarantula, Hold Your Colour, Streamline, Another Planet
Least Favorite Track: N/A
Overall Rating: 8.7/10
All ratings based purely off of personal enjoyment at the time of this video's upload and either end in .0, .3, .5, or .7. Take nothing I say too seriously.

[@trip83]

One of the best DnB albums ever.

[@reio-janpoder5502]

Agreed. First ever song I remember hearing was Fasten Your Seatbelts when I was maybe 5-6. Thank you Pendulum for literally changing my music choice, if it weren't for you, I would be listening to Martin Garrix or something.

[@durrantmiller8810]

Finally, Pendulum! I love Plastic world! Super soothing!

[@Squiddit]

This is probably the only electronic act from Australia that genuinely makes me proud to be Australian.

[@AnimusTheNerd]

The Avalanches?

[@Squiddit]

@@AnimusTheNerd yeah this comment is pretty outdated now, i didn't know the avalanches were australian at the time of commenting and since i left you is one of my favourite albums. i've also discovered some more aussie electronic stuff since then, like Mr. Bill - who is definitely one of the most talented sound designers of today imo, dude's insane - as well as EDDIE, an artist on deadmau5's label mau5trap which ive followed for a while. makes a mixture of progressive house, dark techno and electro house. all pretty solid - and Roland Tings, who makes some pretty catchy deep/outsider house with nice analog synths. also apparently jaytech is also aussie, i don't listen to him that much but he's made some of my favourite tracks off of anjunadeep/anjunabeats. still, there aren't that many electronic aussie acts that i listen to. also there's a few aussie rock/metal/prog acts that i love, like karnivool, king gizzard, plini and psychedelic porn crumpets, so there's that

[@AnimusTheNerd]

@@Squiddit yh i need to stop replying to old comments lol

[@velocityfpv5231]

yoinking that uk style though innit

[@Autarch127]

Fun fact: Rob Swire sang on the group's first ever vinyl-pressed single. His vocals on "Spiral" span most of the song, and predate Hold Your Colour by two years.

[@XLRider2]

Don't worry about the whole The Prodigy thing. I'm a huge Prodigy fan, but I can say I love Pendulum more, mostly because Pendulum was my personal introduction into electronic music as a whole and they will forever hold a special place for me.

[@TheWonkyAngle]

I've known about The Prodigy longer though, I just don't listen to them all that often for whatever reason something just kinda feels wrong about saying I like Pendulum more lol

[@UltraCodex66]

we should be BFs

[@astralplainchannelclosed9286]

XLRider2 Have you heard Pendulums remix of The Prodigy's Voodoo People

[@LNR157]

Same goes here, Slam was the first DnB track I ever properly heard as a kid and changed the surface of what electronic music was as I knew it. Hearing it when I was about 10 probably changed the entire genre for me, as I grew and even now as an adult that is still today passionate about and even produces electronic music today. Additionally I always listen back to the this entire album through at least once every 1-2 months just to relive it and I always hear new things I didn't before in different ways. For me this album will probably always be close to a 10/10.

[@SuperiorNo1]

​@@TheWonkyAngleProdigy Are Superior But Pendulum Are Amazing 😈

[@durrantmiller8810]

Kj Sawka joined right before Immersion

[@JONNYTUBSTER]

This album is the home to one of the best music videos of all time. Slam. Bloke is going full confidence and having a good time. Letting it all out. He’s still there shuffling and bustling on that corner to this day

[@TheSonicTooth]

This is absolutely my all time favourite album. Have to say this one is more similar to Goldie though, the similarity to Prodigy came with later releases. Very few tracks on this album sound anything like MFTJG, and they're my least favourites, lol. Also much prefer this to anything Prodigy's done, this album is a masterpiece of atmosphere, sound design and layering. Just listen to those background FX on Plasticworld, the intro in Streamline or the breakdown in Fasten Your Seatbelts. Mindblowing.

[@matthewmeachem2259]

The vocals as well are completely flawless and add soo much to the album

[@slipperyjackreviewsit1548]

I'm sure we can all agree that Plasticworld is the best track. But what about Out Here? That's a big personal favorite. Anyone agree that out here is a great track?

[@benallan2328]

9.5/10 Best Tracks: “Slam”, “Plastic World” ft. Fats & TC, “Fasten Your Seatbelts” ft. The Freestylers, “Girl In The Fire”, “Sounds of Life” ft. Jasmine Yee, “Through The Loop”, “The Terminal”, “Hold Your Colour”, “Still Grey”, “Another Planet”, “Out Here”, “Streamline” Worst Track: “Axle Grinder”

[@rollingcoasters2311]

You left out Tarantula you dim wit

[@FifteenMegabytes]

Mannnn what did Axle Grinder do to you :(

[@XLRider2]

Hooray! One of my favorite bands!

[@pot5664]

dude my introduction to pendulum was also fasten your seatbelts that I heard in a michael rosen remix video...

[@patricklauer4452]

EVERYBODY ROB SAID ON HIS TWITTER THAT HE'S MAKING A NEW PENDULUM ALBUM!!! BRING ON HYPE TRAIN WOOOOO! (and the wonky angle knows that please wonky spread the word to everyone! 😀)

[@matthewmeachem2259]

"I still consider Experience to be head and shoulders above anything pendulum have done" - My ass. Experience doesn't come close to being as good as Hold Your Colour imo.

[@lllllllleeeeeeeeeeeooooooo8540]

My brain exploded when I saw the title and thumbnail. I recently bought 3 of their albums (In silico, Hold your colour and Immersion). I have already made a mix on my pioneer cdj-1000 mk3s which is 'ok' I guess but it could have some tweaking.

[@lllllllleeeeeeeeeeeooooooo8540]

Yeah, I also listen to a lot of Knife Party. There's just something about Rob Swire that I find so creative and original. I found it quite funny that one of Pendulum's. members was Welsh and I live in Wales so I did some research after this video and found out he used to live only an hour and a half from me. It's also strange that the band is mostly Australian and I lived in Australia for 2 years. CREEPY! But back to the albums and I would say my favourites from the three would probably be: Plastic world, Tarantula, Slam, Fasten your seatbelts, Showdown, 9,000 miles, Mutiny, Propane nightmares, Salt in the wounds, Immunize, Crush, Watercolour and Witchcraft.

[@jamescrowther1234]

10/10, that's all!

[@matthewmeachem2259]

Easily

[@Wil_Dsense]

yes I love this album! brings back sweet memories, man fasten your seatbelts those synth pads... through the loop is epic. another planet I used to play on vinyl, just realised that was more than 10 years ago! holy fk! :) wow. I'm going to listen again to this classic feel good album. nice review by the way. cheers!

[@at_Wild]

Shout out to the british teens who blasted this going 70 on the motorway.

[@whatshock3200]

Hold Your Colour and Still Grey are the best.

[@Ohaigh]

New deadmau5 album is awesome I'm glad you'll be reviewing it

[@patricklauer4452]

Wow it's been nearly 3 months since you uploaded this video and still no dislikes

[@nathanschami1091]

Great album! Jam to Prelude and Slam a lot, but Sounds of Life and Girl in the Fire are definitely the other favorites for me.

[@SuperiorNo1]

1 Of The Best Albums Of All Time 😈

[@Tom-pt4cy]

Ye about the mixing I bought the original 2005 version recently thinking all the songs would blend into each other, but no they is a solid 3 seconds of silence in between the songs

[@PhillipH-san]

WTF! I didn't know about those two other songs that were originally on the album! What other Pendulum songs am I missing in my life!?

[@kidkangaroo5213]

There's a playlist on YT called 'Unreleased/rare Pendulum tracks', which has a lot of tracks that didn't have a big album release. You should check it out.

[@patricklauer4452]

The first ever pendulum song I heard was Witchcraft

[@durrantmiller8810]

Mine was Crush

[@thecuchikiller]

Me Blood Sugar.

[@mischacarlberg6631]

I would love a review of Are You Shpongled? by Shpongle.

[@Maescool]

I know it has become a rare opportunity these days (since they mostly do dj sets these days), but I totally recommend going to one of their live shows, every one of those I have been to, have been I dare to say been like a religious experience.

[@cjjones258]

Fantastic record. My personal favorite of the 3 albums.

[@lewisclp9412]

can't wait for GUNSHOT BRIIIIIIIIIDEEE

[@comedyinc.8792]

Do an 808 State discography review

[@landonfleury]

review the new deadmau5 pls??? /s

[@solidosnak164]

Such beauty

[@patricklauer4452]

The guy who plays the guitar his name is perry

[@MoreDenseThanRationals]

Can I get Four Tet or Moderat or Jon Hopkins reviewed???

[@floral_moth]

You should make a video about black moth super rainbow :)

[@donweensatan]

Another dnb classic is Roni Size Reprazent - New Forms

[@jawidofkoj2998]

Amazing almbum

[@nickland4399]

review the new tipper EP

[@RAVENWRECK666]

Question: how do you get the music from KZbin to your iPod without paying for it because I discovered my old iPod Nano I got several years ago and I was putting some of my old CDs on there I have but for example I don’t have this and I wanted to know how you did that

[@yungpoogaloo5185]

Don't understand how electronic music fans get into this stuff, it's like if the prodigy went even further into numetal territory. Shit sounds like a dnb linkin park.

[@TheWonkyAngle]

this comment would've made sense on the other two albums but this one doesn't have any metal elements

[@yungpoogaloo5185]

I was thinking about mentioning that I've very limited experience listening to them, should have. So maybe this one is alright, but their later stuff is garbage in my opinion.