[3] The band sees the album as a more unpretentious and free work than its predecessor, modeHuman, and believes it to be more representative of what they really are.

They wanted to create songs that were easier to sing along in shows and that could be easily played with an acoustic guitar in a circle of friends, for example.

In studio, the members, encouraged by Masy, experimented with a couple of different things, like playing synths with the cables going through electricity-conducting food.

Searching for a producer for their second album, the band came upon experienced Sylvia Massy (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash, Tool, Foo Fighters, Björk, Prince and System of a Down[2][4][5]) through a common friend she had with the band's manager, Thiago Endrigo.

Besides, obviously, the fact that she is absolutely incredible in what she does.Still in January, they traveled to the United States to record the album,[8] more precisely to the city of Ashland in Oregon.

[5] Unlikely was produced and recorded in approximately 20 days[7] in Ashland, where the band rented a house from where they could reach The Foundation Soundstage studios[12] by foot.

For example, Botarelli recorded some of her synth parts with the electricity cables of the instrument and the amplifier placed on electricity-conducting food like sausages, lemons and picles, which slightly modified the sound without compromising its operation.

[2] About the electronic elements, the keyboardist said they reflected that which was attracting her attention by the time (namely, Rihanna's Anti and Kanye West's The Life of Pablo).

[14] The name of the album refers to the improbability of a rock band from Natal having achieved international success.

The names were originally in Portuguese, but when they realized foreigners struggled to identify the words, they translated them all to English, except for "Coruja" ("Owl").

According to him, the original intention was to shoot it somewhere in the open, but since there was no time, they worked in studio with the band playing with images projected in the background with chroma key.

[18] The track "Pig" was originally called "Galinha" ("Han") and it's supposed to suggest the environment of a farm near a beach.

[13] All tracks are written by Emmily Barreto, Cris Botarelli, Rafael Brasil, Edu Filgueira and Lauro Kirsch[12]Writing for Omelete, Jacídio Junior said that "the structure shown in all tracks – growing and punchy sonority, heavy guitars and synthetic touches – takes the album to a big result and delivers a stimulating listening experience, which keeps the listener's attention all time".

[21] In a non-critical article for Rolling Stone Brasil, Lucas Brêda considered that the band retained its heaviness in Unlikely "through incendiary riffs, filled drums and screaming vocals", but that the album is "more relaxed and, consequently, creative" than modeHuman, which "sounded serious and stern".

He concluded by saying that "inside the sound darkness of Unlikely, Far From Alaska finds the light which will guide the quintet on paths more and more distant from Brazil".

[22] Cleber Facchi, in his website Miojo Indie, said the album "carries in the guitars and screamed voices a series of elements that communicate with various types of public" and that it "shows the attention of the quintet in the assembling of every fragment of voice, arrangement or minimum percussive notch".

[23] Tony Aiex, editor of the website Tenho Mais Discos que Amigos!, said "Unlikely continues from the point where the band's debut stopped, with big guitar riffs and well-structured songs, and inserts new layers of elements which result in one of the best albums of Brazilian rock in this and in the past 10 years".

He praised the members' individual performances and concluded his analysis by saying that the band "got over the natural difficulties of a second album, took advantage from the experience it had in studio with a most competent producer and raised the level of the sonority it presented in the debut".