{"id":74899,"date":"2019-01-17T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=74899"},"modified":"2019-01-13T17:45:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T17:45:38","slug":"review-hold-close-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-hold-close-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Hold Close – Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"After a double dose of EPs with great potential,\u00a0Hold Close\u00a0<\/strong>were billed as ones to watch throughout 2018. Their sonic throwback to early Knuckle Puck and The Story So Far was a sound not heard for at least half a decade, and was welcomed with positive, open arms. After signing to Hopeless Records and spending much of 2018 touring and recording, January 18th sees the release of the band’s debut LP,\u00a0‘Time’<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The first few tracks reveal that the band has spent the last year honing a slightly different sound, one that attempts to add new dimensions to their pop-punk tones, as many bands of the genre do.\u00a0Hold Close<\/strong>‘s attempt is to add keys, which generally do serve to add intricate and textural melodies to even the blandest of rhythm sections, but, on\u00a0‘Time’<\/em>, they’re not quite utilised to their full potential. Every song here is some variation of the last, sitting too comfortably at mid-tempo with a fairly basic song structure. While the keys\u00a0do<\/em> add that extra layer of texture to the music, each song would be instantly forgotten without them.<\/p>\n