The Origin (A Censored Sunlight EP)

The Origin and Why You're Happy Now, commonly referred to as simply The Origin, was the planned debut extended play by A Censored Sunlight. It was expected to be released physically and digitally during the spring of 2012. The EP is a compliation of upcoming songs from the debut A Censored Sunlight record, Bloodlines, along with live performances, unreleased demos, and covers.

Background
Sunlight announced the EP on his Facebook page on March 24, 2012.

"This spring break, I plan to assault your ears. Don't bother trying to prevent it."

This statement was coupled with the official album artwork.

The EP is something of a teaser for the record, including the two previously released singles, Temperance and Sick, as well as three other unreleased official singles. The production and writing done was intended for the album.

"As I saw how difficult and time consuming production was going to be, I realized it was going to be a very long time before I was going to be able to release the full album. So I released the EP as something to just have more than my two songs out there. One song isn't even going to be on the record at this point- it was just like a brief look into the record."

Development and Cancellation
Temperance, the lead single for A Censored Sunlight had been remastered for The Origin soon after the release of the follow-up single, Sick. During this time, Sunlight was in the process of recording the song that he called "the second best song" he had ever written. This was revealed via Sunlight's Soundcloud to be the song Silicon Nightmare, Midnight Fission.

In March 2012, production for The Origin was coming to a close, with producer Liz Berg wrapping up mastering for the final track on the EP, Bloodlines. Around this time, Sunlight decided to scratch the current production notes he had pencilied in for the EP. The name and album art was revised, as well as track order. The song Sick was remastered for the new EP, and a new intro was recorded solely by Sunlight, which was the first part of what Sunlight described as the "Origin Suite", which kept the message of the original EP, but also allowed Sunlight to make new revisions.

"It was around March, and I was starting to feel a little unsure about The Origin. The cover art was starting to feel strange and forced, and it just felt... lacking. I kept the majority of the tracks, but as far as production goes, I pretty much felt like I needed to start from scratch."

Sunlight announced that the debut EP had been delayed and renamed via his Facebook page in the final week of March 2012.