| Imagine Dragons | |
| Type: | EP |
| Artist: | Imagine Dragons |
| Cover: | Imagine_Dragons_EP.jpeg |
| Released: | August 24, 2009 |
| Studio: | Battle Born Studios |
| Genre: | Alternative rock, indie rock |
| Length: | 19:45 |
| Label: |
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| Producer: | Imagine Dragons |
| Prev Title: | Speak to Me |
| Prev Year: | 2008 |
| Next Title: | Hell and Silence |
| Next Year: | 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] 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.
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".
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".
The album art is an autostereogram, which features a dragon facing to the right.[7]
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]