Four songs were released as singles before "Weaves" was issued: "Hulahoop" on April 30, 2013, "Motorcycle" on July 23, 2013, "Take A Dip" on September 23, 2013, and "Buttercup" on February 18, 2014. "Take a Tip" was a premiere by "Spin" magazine. The blog BrooklynVegan premiered "Weaves" for streaming on March 26, 2014. A tour in Ontario and New York promoting the EP last from April 10 to June 22, 2014. On July 21, 2014, "Noisey" premiered the remix EP for "Weaves", which features a re-edit of "Hulahoop" by Bram Gielen. The video for the remix was released by "Chart Attack" on July 29, 2014, and in the video, Burke "drinks from straw glasses, waves torches and sparklers and performs some lounging, laconic dance moves." On August 12, 2013, a music video for the song "Motorcycle" was released. "Chart Attack" noted the video's "weird, wrong-handed sketches, which divert from the Badlands 4 Kidz plot with lots of delightful non-sequiter cutaways to make it a junky feast for your rapidly deteriorating attention span." On March 24, 2014, "Rookie" magazine premiered the video for "Buttercup". The werid, crazy look of the video is meant to match the pretty-looking yet poisonous aspect of a buttercup, a flower the song is named after. Both videos were directed and created by Jason Harvey, who Waters described as "a really talented guy" with his own "strong voice". On October 15, 2013, the video for "Take a Dip" was released; it depicts Burke dressed in a white-colored shawl in a dark-lit church. The other band members appear near the end of the video, where she grates cheddar cheese onto their heads as they bow to her. Response towards "Weaves" from music journalists upon release was generally favorable. Critics from publications like "Exclaim!" and "Noisey" praises included the record's combination of numerous musical styles to the point where the overall genre the EP could be labeled its own category or could be very hard to pin-point. "Noisey" said that the EP "experiments and dips across genre lines in a balancing act between of laxity and concentration, without all of the pretension and exclusivity that normally accompanies a buzzing indie band".