[2][3][4] It was released on Drag City in April 1996 and re-released in Europe on Domino in 2001.

"Back in School," "I Break Horses," and "The Orange Glow of a Stranger's Living Room" were recorded by Steve Albini.

[2] In an interview, Callahan said that "I Break Horses" was written "to help a friend try to understand how a guy she had a one-night stand with could possibly not return her phone calls the next day or ever again.

"[5] Trouser Press praised “The Orange Glow of a Stranger’s Living Room,” writing that it "lets some lovely picking and piano pierce the warm gloom of [Smog's] abiding displacement.

"[2] The Washington Post called the EP "four delicate, downbeat songs that have a trad-country mournfulness.