 The EP was distributed by the Alternative Distribution Alliance.The five songs on the EP were written while the band's members were living in a farmhouse in Ithaca, New York.In 2019, the release was reissued along with bonus tracks from their 1995 single self-titled single (also referred to by its first track, "The Public Hanging of a Movie Star") as well as a cover of "The City Never Sleeps" and the previous unreleased track "In the Head".