criss describes that he put off making an ep for a long time because he is a perfectionist, which is why he prefers people to see him play live. criss recorded the ep in his room in about a week with an audio engineer friend of his. criss states that each of the songs are "old songs," adding that "human" was the first song he wrote, back when he was 15. the songs "sami" and "not alone" appeared in the starkid productions musical "a very potter musical", but criss had written them beforehand. he wrote "not alone" while abroad in italy and wrote "sami" for the web series "little white lie" that he and other members of starkid had done in 2007.