The album was officially released on December 14, 2010 through Hydra Head Records, however copies could be obtained one month earlier on Black Friday.

[5] After making the conscious decision not to play heavy metal music anymore in the late 1990s, after the release of Until Your Heart Stops, Cave In started recording material that was more spacey and alternative that eventually culminated in the Creative Eclipses EP.

The Cave In track "I Luv I Jah" was originally released in 1999 on Never Give In: A Tribute to Bad Brains.

1 ends with a cover of the slowcore band Codeine's song "Cave-In," written for their 1990 album Frigid Stars.

[9] The song was originally released on Cave In's Lollapalooza EP and Japanese editions of Perfect Pitch Black.