Holding On (track)
by The War On Drugs
Year: 2017
From the album A Deeper Understanding (track #3)
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Holding On appears on the following album(s) by The War On Drugs:
- A Deeper Understanding (track #3) (this album) (2017)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 12/21/2025 16:58 | Siromynian | 16,010 | 71/100 |
| ! | 12/18/2025 20:29 | Luncea | 5,058 | 85/100 |
| ! | 12/03/2025 18:08 | Exist-en-ciel | 78,458 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/02/2025 14:26 | sunnydhamm | 18,449 | 57/100 |
| ! | 09/03/2025 17:53 | gmessian | 1,472 | 55/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 88.2/100, a mean average of 88.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.9.
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DeusExMackia 02/07/2019 21:20 | #231517
The hope, the joy, the warmth in this song, in those shrill guitars and that groovy driving beat and the sky-high chorus; at some points its almost seems to be limitless with how high that guitar climbs.
This is both reminiscing about the good times but also about seizing the future with a horizon-wide outlook. That little downward chime-bar riff is spellbinding.
corenfro 10/14/2017 00:24 | #199462
Great bridge between track 2 and 4. The vocal melody is great if one dimensional but then the track hits where it needs to hit, especially in the instrumental section towards the end where the guitars descend down the scale.
Fantastic track, hyped for the new album
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