Try This with Your Eyes Closed

Try This with Your Eyes Closed
EP by Alesana
Released	June 24, 2005
Recorded	May 10 - 17 2005
Genre	Post-hardcore, emo
Length	26:33 33:28 (reissue)
Label	Tragic Hero
Producer	Shawn Milke, Jamie King (reissue)
Alesana chronology
Try This with Your Eyes Closed (2005) On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax (2006)
Re-release cover

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Try This with Your Eyes Closed is the first release by the rock band Alesana. It was recorded in February 2004 with all of Alesana's original members released during mid-2005 through Tragic Hero Records. Clean vocalist Shawn Milke produced and mastered every song.

Since its release, all of its tracks have been re-released on later albums, except for "Not a Single Word About This". The EP was reissued and re-mastered by Jamie King in 2008,^[1] with two tracks off of an early sampler called All The Tragedy Money Can Buy included as bonus tracks. Unlike Alesana's other releases, there are few allusions to mythology within the themes of the lyrics, rather than having lyrics dealing with personal subjects.^[2]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Shawn Milke and Dennis Lee, all songs written by Alesana.

Try This with Your Eyes Closed
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Apology"	4:10
2.	"Endings Without Stories"	3:43
3.	"And They Call This Tragedy"	4:29
4.	"Not a Single Word About This"	3:30
5.	"Red and Dying Evening"	2:58
6.	"Congratulations, I Hate You"	3:57
7.	"Early Mourning"	3:46
Total length:		26:33

Reissue bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
8.	"Goodbye, Goodnight, for Good"	3:38
9.	"Beautiful in Blue"	3:17
Total length:		33:28

Track information

• "Apology", "Congratulations, I Hate You", and "Early Mourning" were all re-recorded on the band's full-length release On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax.
• "Endings Without Stories", "And They Call This Tragedy", "Red and Dying Evening", and "Goodbye, Goodnight for Good" (on the reissue) were re-recorded on their second album Where Myth Fades To Legend.
• The track "Early Mourning" is a bonus track and is not featured on the CD jacket in the original release.
• The track "Beautiful in Blue" was re-recorded for Where Myth Fades To Legend, although it never made the final list. It was included as a bonus track on the Japanese release of Where Myth Fades to Legend.
• The track "Not a Single Word About This" is the only song released on this EP that has not been re-recorded on any of their later releases.

Personnel

Alesana

• Dennis Lee – unclean vocals
• Shawn Milke – lead vocals, piano, rhythm guitar
• Patrick Thompson – lead guitar, backing vocals
• Steven Tomany – bass
• Daniel Magnuson – drums, percussion

Production

• Shawn Milke - Production, mastering, mixing, engineer
• Jamie King - Production, mastering (on the reissue and re-mastered EP)

References

1. "Music: Try This With Your Eyes Closed (CD) by Alesana (Artist)". Tower.com. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
2. Elizabeth Wolford (2009-03-11). "Rock Album Reviews: Alesana - Try This With Your Eyes Closed". Rockalbumreviews.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-03-12.