Modern Earth was recorded and engineered at Panda Studios in Fremont, California, with producer Sam Pura who has also worked with Basement and The Story So Far. It was mixed and mastered by Neil Kennedy at Ranch Production House in Southampton.

Vocalist Shaun Milton says: "If Life Gone Wrong's concept was about being in that moment as it all falls around you, Modern Earth is a continuation of that story, an expansion explaining the disease of the mind, sculpting, adjusting and accepting those circumstances as it suffocates you powerless.