M. Ward

Artist: M. Ward
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 02/17/2009
Label: Merge Records
Catalog Number: MRG323
Recording: Studio
Length: 44:44
Format: CD (1 Used)

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Hold Time (CD)

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Media Condition: Good CD Comments: Review It’s been a nice and steady career arc for Portland’s M. Ward since his 1999 Duet for Two Guitars (released on Howe Gelb’s tiny Ow Om label) sold probably 23 copies. (Merge, his home now, has since reissued it). He’s since played with everybody from Norah Jones to My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and Conor Oberst (on the Monsters of Folk tour), and 2008’s She & Him collaboration with actress Zooey Deschanel was a hit with hipsters and normals alike. Hold Time returns to the more blues-centric format that first made Ward sound like a traditionalist from another era. It’s his most lyrically sophisticated record, and his most overtly spiritual, too. The Johnny Cash train shuffle “Fisher of Men” infuses song with spirit when Ward sings, “He put his name in my verses and his name in the hook.” “Epistemology” is an ode to Ward’s Catholic upbringing, while “Blake’s View” echoes the poet’s Gnosticism: “Birth is just a chorus, death is just a verse/In the great song of spring that the mockingbirds sing.” There are affecting duets with She & Him collaborator Deschanel and ex-Grandaddy guru Jason Lytle, though the drawn-out cover of “Oh, Lonesome Me” with Lucinda Williams is the record’s weak link, as her craggy croak, the synth-politan strings and funeral pacing derail the momentum. On the other hand, two of the most affecting tracks are “To Save Me” (with Lytle) and “Rave On” (with Deschanel), both of which successfully add Wall of Sound layers to Ward’s upbeat blues. Ward’s prowess on guitar is on display as well, but it’s the obvious buzz he gets from the instrument rather than any great technique that translates into such memorable playing. Like the best blues, Hold Time transcends whiney laments about love’s ups and downs and instead channels those vicissitudes into the palpable enjoyment of music-making.		Buy $10.99

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Disc 1 Titles	Artist	Length
1. For Beginners	M. Ward	02:48
2. Never Had Nobody Like You	M. Ward	02:26
3. Jailbird	M. Ward	02:32
4. Hold Time	M. Ward	03:05
5. Rave On	M. Ward	03:36
6. To Save Me	M. Ward	03:02
7. One Hundred Million Years	M. Ward	02:12
8. Stars of Leo	M. Ward	03:18
9. Fisher of Men	M. Ward	03:13
10. Oh Lonesome Me	M. Ward	06:06
11. Epistemology	M. Ward	03:49
12. Blake's View	M. Ward	02:30
13. Shangri-La	M. Ward	02:20
14. Outro (I'm a Fool to Want You)	M. Ward	03:47

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