Identikit (album)

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Identikit
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Studio album by
Released8 May 2001
RecordedJune – December 2000
Genre Rock, post-hardcore
Length44:56
Label DeSoto (U.S.); Arctic Rodeo Recordings (Germany)
Burning Airlines chronology
Mission: Control!
(1999)
Identikit
(2001)
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Identikit is the second and final album by American rock band Burning Airlines, released in 2001. [2] In 2012, the German label Arctic Rodeo Recordings reissued the album as a marbled colour vinyl LP with enclosed CD in an edition of 700 copies (200 on white/blue, 250 on gold/white, 250 on red/black), with an added cover version of Sweet's "Action." [3]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by J. Robbins, except where noted.

  1. "Outside the Aviary" – 1:50
  2. "Morricone Dancehall" – 2:52
  3. "A Lexicon" – 3:28
  4. "A Song With No Words" – 3:56
  5. "All Sincerity" – 2:40
  6. "The Surgeon's House" – 3:59
  7. "The Deluxe War Baby" – 3:32
  8. "Everything Here Is New" – 3:18
  9. "Paper Crowns" – 2:46
  10. "Blind Trial" – 2:25
  11. "Identikit" – 3:17
  12. "Election-Night Special" - 2:05
  13. "Tastykake" – 4:14
  14. "Earthbound" – 2:09
  15. "Dear Hilary" (Scott Ritcher) – 2:31
  16. "Action" - 3:33 (Andy Scott, Brian Connolly, Steve Priest, Mick Tucker) (2012 reissue)

Personnel

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References

  1. Kellman, Andy. Identikit at AllMusic
  2. "BURNING AIRLINES "Identikit" ... - The Washington Post".
  3. "BURNING AIRLINES – "Identikit" – LP+CD (arr044)". Arctic Rodeo Recordings. Retrieved 6 December 2020.