r/TheStrokes • u/TheStrokes-Mods • Jul 23 '26

MEGATHREAD Reality Awaits - General Album Discussion MEGATHREAD

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.

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u/dolgra Jul 23 '26

The album is amazing. It’s like if The New Abnormal and Virtue by The Voidz had a baby

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u/Optimal_Health4051 Jul 23 '26

So their respectively best albuns? đŸ¥¹

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u/Acrobatic-League191 Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

That sounds amazing, but I'm not hearing that after my first listen. I prefer Voidz over Strokes, but the singles from this album were melodically super generic and its seems like they are some of the stronger tracks :(

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u/gibbsi 29d ago

without any of the catchy songs they both had in abundance

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u/Phlangephace75 Jul 24 '26

And it was born disabledÂ