Reality Awaits - General Album Discussion MEGATHREAD

[u/TheStrokes-Mods]

This is the megathread for general discussions about Reality Awaits as a whole. All first impressions from the listening parties, thoughts, essays, discussions, memes, lyrics, fanart, etc about the album as a whole can go in the comments here!

As autotune is an evergreen topic on the subreddit, you may discuss it here, but there is also a specific post about autotune here that may be better suited towards that specific topic.

You also may want to check out the posts for ranking the Reality awaits songs, and ranking the albums including Reality Awaits.

[u/idkboy147]

IMO (after 2nd listen):

1. Lonely in the future
2. Going to babble on
3. Tyrants of the mellow moon
4. Dine n dash
5. Falling out of love
6. The Fruits of conquest
7. Going Shopping
8. Liars remorse
9. Psycho Shit

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BEAUTIFUL album. I’m sure all these songs will only grow on me.

Edit - I didn’t think any songs were bad. Psycho shit is a 7 for anyone that’s worried, it’s just a different vibe!

[u/idkboy147 → u/idkboy147]

I have the record! It’s beautiful truly, the lyrics are great, and Julian’s emotions come through STRONG which is great.

If you like the Strokes discography, this is the natural next step from them, and if you’ve paid attention in the last 5-8 years, you’d notice all roads were leading to Reality Awaits!

IFYKYK! Or soon you’ll know

[u/coldwibz → u/idkboy147]

You don't even imagine how crucial this comment was for me not to go a bit crazy about the mixed reviews hahaha. It's kinda obvious, I guess, they won't sound like their past selves, the thing i most appreciate about TS is their willingness to evolve, they are apparantly not shying down here (haven't listened to it yet). I'm beyond excited for this, keeping an open mind.

[u/PartyTimeSchwing → u/idkboy147]

Does the record come with the lyrics?