 The album is the second remix album/EP by The Cure, following "Mixed Up".Existence of the EP was made public by Robert Smith via an announcement on The Cure's website on 23 July 2008.The songs were remixed by Jared Leto of Thirty Seconds to Mars, Jade Puget of AFI, Julien-K, Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance, Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, and Cure opener 65daysofstatic.