Coming a couple of years after High Peak Selections, Early Music was the second 'studio' full-length album by Jon Collin. More spare and sparse than its predecessor, both in atmosphere and presentation (the track names are simply numbers), it's also perhaps more focused and consistent in terms of sound and mood (as well as instrumental set-up and recording locale). While High Peak Selections and later recordings feature environmental and external sounds bleeding in and out of recordings, the only sound other than an amplified acoustic guitar heard on Early Music is the whirr and squeak of the reel-to-reel tape machine that it was recorded on, the recording device becoming an additional instrumental presence.

The importance of the release in the wider context of Jon Collin's back catalogue is shown by the fact that the record's title would become the name of the record label that he would start not long after its release, and indeed that that this reissue is presented by, in a handmade edition of 220 copies.