Imagine Dragons (EP)

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Imagine Dragons
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ReleasedAugust 24, 2009
Studio Battle Born Studios
Genre Alternative rock, indie rock
Length19:45
Label
Producer Imagine Dragons
Imagine Dragons chronology
Speak to Me
(2008)
Imagine Dragons
(2009)
Hell and Silence
(2010)

Imagine Dragons is the eponymous second extended play (EP) by the American rock band of the same name, released on August 24, 2009. [1] It was recorded at Battle Born Studios. All songs were written and produced by Imagine Dragons. Engineering was done by Robert Root. [2] Tracks from the EP featured on Windows Media Player after the band won a competition on Reverbnation. [3] [ citation needed ] The track "I Need a Minute" cracked the CMJ Radio 200. [4] "Cover Up" appears on various deluxe editions of the band's debut album Night Visions .

Contents

On October 15, 2021, the EP was reissued through Kidinakorner and Interscope Records and re-released onto streaming platforms with the previously unreleased bonus track "Hole Inside Our Chests".

Release

On June 26, 2009, the band released the first song "Uptight" on MySpace. [5] On July 24, they released two songs "I Need a Minute" and "Cover Up". [6]

On October 15, 2021, the EP was re-released onto streaming platforms with the previously unreleased bonus track "Hole Inside Our Chests".

Cover art

The album art is an autostereogram, which features a dragon facing to the right. [7]

Film and television

Track listing

All tracks are written by Imagine Dragons (Dan Reynolds, Wayne Sermon, Ben McKee, Andrew Tolman, Brittany Tolman), except where noted

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Need a Minute" 3:27
2."Uptight" 3:43
3."Cover Up"
  • Dan Reynolds
  • Wayne Sermon
  • Ben McKee
4:18
4."Curse" 3:45
5."Drive" 4:32
Total length:19:45
2021 re-release (bonus track)
No.TitleLength
6."Hole Inside Our Chests"2:38
Total length:22:23

Personnel

Critical reaction

Jason Bracelin, writing in the Las Vegas Review-Journal , described the EP by stating "Upon taking in this bunch's new EP you get the sense that they could probably turn the recitation of the ingredients to a bottle of Prell into an arms-in-the-air anthem. With outsized synth lines, ringing, perpetually cresting guitars and massive syncopated beats and cymbal splashes, Imagine Dragons don't make any bones about believing that bigger is always better... it'll only be a matter of time before a song like 'Curse' is all over the radio." [10]

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