With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear is the debut album by American post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...

 band Sleeping with Sirens

Sleeping with Sirens

Sleeping with Sirens is an American post-hardcore band from Orlando, Florida currently residing in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Formed in 2009 by members of For All We Know, Broadway and We Are Defiance...

. It was released on March 23, 2010, through Rise Records

Rise Records

-History:Rise was founded in 1991 by Craig Ericson in Roseburg, Oregon. He released a small number of 7" records before putting the label on hiatus to attend college. Ericson didn't release anything further until 1999, after moving to Portland, Oregon. He began issuing small-print 7" records, and...

. The album debuted at number 7 on Billboard

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s Top Heatseekers

Top Heatseekers

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 chart, and at number 36 on Top Independent Albums. It received praise in particular for singer Kellin Quinn's vocals and the breakdowns, and is the last release by the band to feature guitarists Nick Trombino and Brandon McMaster, who have since been replaced by Jesse Lawson and former Broadway guitarist Jack Fowler respectively.

Track listing

Personnel

Sleeping with Sirens

• Kellin Quinn - lead vocals
  Lead vocalist
  The lead vocalist is the member of a band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. They may also play one or more instruments. Lead vocalists are sometimes referred to as the frontman or frontwoman, and as such, are usually considered to be the "leader" of the groups they perform in, often the...
  
  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , programming
  Programming (music)
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• Brandon McMaster - lead guitar
  Lead guitar
  Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
  
  
• Justin Hills - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Nick Trombino - rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
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• Gabe Barham - drums
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Guest musicians

• Aaron Marsh
  Aaron Marsh
  Aaron Marsh is an American singer-songwriter, musician and producer from Florida. He first gained prominence as the lead singer, guitarist, and pianist for the Florida-based indie rock band Copeland, who formed in 2000...
  
   - additional vocals on track 4
• David Stephens
  We Came as Romans
  We Came as Romans is an American rock band from Troy, Michigan. Formed in 2005, the band signed to Equal Vision Records in April 2009 and have released two EPs, Demonstrations and Dreams , and two full-length albums, To Plant a Seed and Understanding What We've Grown to Be...
  
   - additional vocals on track 5

Production

• Cameron Mizell
  Cameron Mizell
  Cameron Mizell is an American record producer and owner of the Chango Studios in Orlando, Florida. Cameron Mizell started recording in 2006. Mizell was also the lead singer for the band Last Winter in which he appeared on the albums Transmission: Skyline and Under The Silver Of Machines, both of...
  
   - mixing
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  , mastering
  Audio mastering
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  , production
  Sound recording and reproduction
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  , engineering
  Audio engineering
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  , additional programming and percussion
• Glenn Thomas - art direction and design