The cover art features the font Cochin for the first time since the release of "Bend and Break" in 2005.
The first Retrospective EP was the band's 2003 and 2004 hit single "Everybody's Changing", from their debut album Hopes and Fears.
The final track "Into the Light" was never released, and features pianist Rice-Oxley on lead vocals.
Although this is the third release by the band marketed as an EP, none of them has actually featured the common studio CD format.
All tracks written by Tim Rice-Oxley, Tom Chaplin, and Richard Hughes Retrospective EP2 was based around the songs Keane recorded with producer James Sanger in France during the early 2000s, comprising demos of "Sunshine" and "This Is the Last Time".