Recording
Todd Zilla was recorded at Lytle's second studio, in Ceres, California, on older equipment — "none of that glitzy 24-track business". Its eight tracks do not appear on the band's fourth full-length album, Just Like the Fambly Cat. He recorded it as "a way to fill the gaps of time while recording the new album. I just thought I could throw together some old songs and some newer ones and a really new one". Some of the songs had been written much earlier, as far back as ten years before, as Lytle stated: "There are years-long gaps between a lot of these songs, and mostly they were just annoying me because they were sitting around doing nothing."
Everything on the EP was written and recorded by Lytle with the exception of drum tracks by Aaron Burtch.
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