New Lexicon

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New Lexicon
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 19, 2008
RecordedAugust – September 2007
Genre Hardcore punk
Length30:26
Label Jade Tree
Producer J. Robbins, Oktopus, Paint It Black
Paint It Black chronology
Paradise
(2005)
New Lexicon
(2008)
Amnesia EP
(2009)
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New Lexicon is the third full-length album from Philadelphia's Paint It Black. It was released on Jade Tree Records on February 19, 2008. [4] Over a month before the album's release date, on January 6, the band gave away copies of the Goliath 7" single to everyone that came out to their record release show at the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The Ledge" - 1:31
  2. "Four Deadly Venoms" - 1:37
  3. "We Will Not" - 2:48
  4. "Past Tense, Future Perfect" - 2:20
  5. "Missionary Position" - 1:40
  6. "White Kids Dying of Hunger" - 2:07
  7. "Gravity Wins" - 2:49
  8. "Dead Precedents" - 0:46
  9. "The Beekeeper" - 1:53
  10. "Check Yr Math" - 1:28
  11. "So Much for Honour Among Thieves" - 1:50
  12. "New Folk Song" - 2:15
  13. "Saccharine" - 1:26
  14. "Severance" - 3:22
  15. "Shell Game Redux" - 2:37

Personnel

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