The uber talented M Ward has announced that his new record, entitled Hold Time, will be out on February 17th on Merge.  It is the followup to Post War and this time round he is joined by a few guests including Jason Lytle (Grandaddy), Lucinda Williams, Tom Hagerman (DeVotchKa), and, of course, Zooey Deschanel who he collaborated with on the She & Him album recently.

The tracklisting for the new record is:

1. For Beginners 2. Never Had Nobody Like You 3. Jailbird 4. Hold Time 5. Rave On 6. To Save Me 7. One Hundred Million Years 8. Stars of Leo 9. Fisher of Men 10. Oh Lonesome Me 11. Epistemology 12. Blake’s View 13. Shangri-La 14. Outro

In the meantime, here is some footage from his performance on the ABC’s Studio 22 from a few years back: