The cover art is a picture of Lights that she took in her apartment in Toronto heavily edited in a "cheap program" she owned for her computer at the time.

Later in the year, coinciding with Lights' touring, the EP was made available on CD in the US on September 16, 2008.

Three songs from Lights were released as singles: "Drive My Soul", "February Air", and "Ice".

[7] These songs, along with "The Last Thing on Your Mind", were later reworked and included on Lights' debut album, The Listening (2009).

[9] Matthew Chisling of Allmusic remarked that the EP "found a large amount of commercial success" and "critical praise"[7]—including Lights' 2009 Juno Award for New Artist of the Year[10]—which led Warner Bros. to allow Lights to release The Listening almost a year later.