After being initially planned to be released on New Year's Day 2012 it was delayed indefinitely by Bring Me the Horizon due to their label situation.

As early as January 2011 suspicion arose about Bring Me the Horizon planning to release a second remix album after the success of Suicide Season: Cut Up!.

[3] At the end of 2011 Bring Me the Horizon made an announcement by the band on 29 December about a new extended play titled The Chill Out Sessions, a collaborative effort with British DJ "Draper".

[5] The EP was originally supposed to be released in time for New Year's Day and to be made available for download and purchase though Bring Me the Horizon's website.

[9] The EP is seen as expanding upon mellow electronic undertow of the songs from the band's third album There Is a Hell...[10] Draper also cut out any use of Oliver Sykes vocals and instead favoured the vocals of Lights and combining riffs of songs with "atmospheric bass drops".