Try This with Your Eyes Closed is the first release by the rock band Alesana

Alesana

Alesana is an American rock band from Raleigh, North Carolina. Formed in 2004, the group is currently signed to Epitaph Records and have released one EP and four full-length studio albums...

. It was recorded during February of 2004 with all of Alesana's original members released during mid 2005 through Tragic Hero Records

Tragic Hero Records

Tragic Hero Records is a record label founded in Raleigh, North Carolina in March 2005 to represent the growing hardcore punk and harder wave of music in North Carolina. The label was founded by Tommy Lacombe, David Varnedoe and Jason Ganthner. Alesana was the first band the label signed...

. 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, 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.

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
  On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax
  On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax is the debut full length album by Alesana. It was originally released on June 6, 2006 by Tragic Hero Records, but when the band joined Fearless Records, it was re-released on March 20, 2007 with two bonus tracks, four live videos, and an interview with the newer label...
  
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• "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
  Where Myth Fades To Legend
  Where Myth Fades to Legend is the second full-length studio album by Alesana, released through Fearless Records on June 3, 2008. The album was produced by Steve Evetts and recorded in Los Angeles, California....
  
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• 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
  Where Myth Fades To Legend
  Where Myth Fades to Legend is the second full-length studio album by Alesana, released through Fearless Records on June 3, 2008. The album was produced by Steve Evetts and recorded in Los Angeles, California....
  
  , 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

Alesana

Alesana is an American rock band from Raleigh, North Carolina. Formed in 2004, the group is currently signed to Epitaph Records and have released one EP and four full-length studio albums...

• 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)