Describing Coming Aparts sound, The New York Times Ben Ratliff said "the music rests on root chords, drones, feedback and repeated patterns from two guitars." Gordon listed jazz music, and in particular John Coltrane, as influences on the songs' compositions, noting that the opening track "Abstract" includes a similar structure to the music on Coltrane's album Meditations (1965). Ratliff stated that much of Body/Head's music is "directly traceable to early Sonic Youth", of whom Gordon was a co-founder, vocalist, guitarist and bassist. Nace listed Sonic Youth's fourth studio album, Sister (1987), as an influence on his guitar techniques, which have been compared to Japanese noise musician Merzbow. The composition of the album's sound has been described as being "free of verse/chorus structures" and compared to Sonic Youth's earlier releases. After the album was recorded—much of it live, with minimal overdubs and no added percussion—at Sonelab in Easthampton, Massachusetts in December 2012, the album's engineer Justin Pizzoferrato mixed Gordon's guitar to the left channel and Nace's guitar to the right channel of the final stereo mix.
