Hold Time (album)
# Hold Time (album)

Professional ratings :

| Aggregate scores ||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 79/100 |
| Review scores ||
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| KPSU | |
| Pitchfork | 6.8/10 |
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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

* "For Beginners" – 2:47
* "Never Had Nobody Like You" (Featuring Zooey Deschanel) – 2:26
* "Jailbird" – 2:31
* "Hold Time" – 3:05
* "Rave On" (Featuring Zooey Deschanel) (Norman Petty, Bill Tilghman, Sonny West) – 3:35
* "To Save Me" (Featuring Jason Lytle)– 3:01
* "One Hundred Million Years" – 2:11
* "Stars of Leo" – 3:18
* "Fisher of Men" – 3:12
* "Oh Lonesome Me" (Featuring Lucinda Williams) (Don Gibson) – 6:05
* "Epistemology" – 3:49
* "Blake's View" – 2:29
* "Shangri-La" – 2:20
* "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

| Chart (2009) | Peak position |
| - | - |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) | 33 |
| Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) | 31 |
| US Billboard 200 | 31 |
| US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard) | 7 |
| US Digital Albums (Billboard) | 6 |
| US Independent Albums (Billboard) | 1 |
| US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) | 10 |
| US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) | 2 |
