The EP's six tracks were produced by Dave Parkin (Red Jezebel), at Blackbird Sound Studios, who also provided electric guitar and percussion.
[1] For the recording they were joined by Jordy Hewitt on backing vocals, Justin Smith on violin and session drummers, Mark Milentis and Tim Stacey, who replaced by Jon Elder on drums for live performances.
"[4] The Sunday Telegraph's reviewer declared "this music sends tingles up your spine... [they] defy the nu-rock trend with their lush electronica and superb songs...
[2] After a month-long residency at Melbourne's Duke of Windsor Hotel the band travelled to London to perform at the Barfly and the Metro in November.
[6] The Hampdens have played with Ben Lee, Evermore, John Mayer, Ray LaMontagne, Thirsty Merc, Sarah Harmer, george, Rob Thomas, and Missy Higgins.
[1][6] The success of the Brightness Falls led to their signing with Sony Music Australia, which released their follow up EP, Even World, on 12 April 2004.
[10] Eliezer added that their EP included "references of writers, photographers, washed-up moguls, and falling ASX stock tickers atop crumbling concrete skyscrapers.
They enlisted the services of Victor Van Vugt (Beth Orton, Nick Cave and PJ Harvey) to produce the album,[13] with fellow Melburnian, Matt Lovell (Silverchair, Eskimo Joe) as sound engineer.
[15] Foster noticed that "The world Legge presents – partly with an eye on hitting the zeitgeist with song titles like ‘Generation Y' – is jaded, partied out and numb, with refuge found in dreams and sleep and the search for love.
"[13] The song is about beauty and hope, about white Converse sneakers and beating hearts in dark clubs, about a new generation for whom Kurt Cobain is nostalgia and CK one is a cultural relic, about going back to the town you grew up in and burying your hands in the soil.
Legge provided lead vocals for a track on the second album by Sydney artist, Matt Ridgway, Sunday Morning (October 2011).