Try This with Your Eyes Closed

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

Since its release, all of its tracks have been re-released on later albums, excluding for "Not a Single Word About This". The EP was reissued and re-mastered by Jamie King in 2006,^[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

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 track that has not been re-recorded on any of their albums.

Personnel

Alesana

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

Production

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

References