Sitting down with Radio.com, frontman Mark Foster explained that "Coming of Age" wasn't born in just one recording session. "Some songs get finished in a couple hours, some songs take a while and this was like, every couple of days, we would start recording, we'd finish another song, come back to It, we'd do something to it, we'd put it down, go back to another song, work work work, and pick it up a couple days later. Over time it started to take shape and actually become a real song."

Speaking about the album's overarching theme of interpersonal communications in a modern world, Foster said the state of social networking had been taking up a lot of his thought, noting that "we have this new technology and we don't really know what its long term effects will be." He called it a "cheap version" of real human connection. "I feel like kids are getting more and more used to communicating through a glass screen than they are face-to-face and that worries me a little."