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Hold My Home

Cold War Kids

Hold My Home

Fifth album of soulful, piano-driven indie rock from Long Beach, California quintet

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6.1

Label
Downtown
UK Release date
09/03/2015
US Release date
27/10/2014
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  1. 8.0 |   All Music

    With Hold My Home, they emerge as a more straightforward band, and also a more confident and engaging one
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  2. 8.0 |   State

    Some of Cold War Kids’ most pleasurable and fulfilling music since their debut
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  3. 7.9 |   Paste Magazine

    Arguably the strongest record—with the most consistent highlights—that the band has yet to deliver
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  4. 7.5 |   Beardfood

    This genuinely sounds like Modest Mouse in 2014. And that's a very good thing
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  5. 7.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    A band of exploration and sonic fabric-testing, making the same four or so instruments do something different each time to produce different timbres and textures
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  6. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    A mature, fully-realised piece of work
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  7. 7.0 |   Clash

    The album's most surprising move comes with the ambiguous 'Hotel Anywhere', which sees the band delivering the sort of loud, big anthemic rock that Simple Minds excelled at back in the day
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  8. 6.0 |   God Is In The TV

    There are some splendid tunes here, but whilst this full on, big sound complements some tracks adequately, there are also some which suffer tragically
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  9. 6.0 |   Under The Radar

    The band's stylistic exploration is brave and admirable, but Home suffers most from a lack of consistency
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  10. 6.0 |   Q

    Frayed soul-rock. Print edition only

  11. 5.0 |   The Digital Fix

    A rather indifferent business as usual
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  12. 4.0 |   PopMatters

    A failure, featuring no virtuosity, no experimentation, no honesty, no power of any kind, just stodgy, empty confidence in place of anything worth saying
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  13. 4.0 |   The Music

    At this point we’ve come to expect more from Cold War Kids, or want more from them at least
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  14. 3.3 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Pleasantly esoteric references and last-second Hail Marys can’t save Hold My Home from the disease of having nothing, really, to say. Nor can a meticulously stylish image or painstakingly minimalist album art
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  • 1. All This Could Be Yours N/A
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  • 3. Hot Coals N/A
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  • 5. Hotel Anywhere N/A
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