The Longest Lonesome was produced, engineered, and mixed by Sam Guaiana at Room 21 Sound in Toronto. From unrelenting trauma (“Shawinigan”) to painful acceptance (“Drown Me Out”) to tongue and cheek denial (“Heel”) to a somber change of pace sonically (“Tiger Lily”) to desperate pleading (“I’ll Come Around”); Rarity touches on self-criticism, introversion, and loneliness. “Everything was written as a response to a very specific time in our career,” vows Woods. “We took all of our favourite moments and sounds from our previous material and focused in on what made a Rarity song a Rarity song.”
