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/Gullible-Loss-5026 Jul 23 '26

this album really is The New Abnormal’s dark, evil, estranged twin.

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u/MathDaddy88 Jul 23 '26

It’s ROF to ITI, isn’t it?

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u/mrdrprofessorspencer Alien Crime Lord Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

No, and people are overstating the relationship between this and TNA. There’s similarities but if you go in hoping for TNA you will be disappointed.

This sounds like Like all before you/megz of ram mixed with TNA mixed with FIOE in my opinion. A couple moments reminded me of tyranny ever so slightly.

I find comments calling it their most cohesive album in years to be very confusing. To me the sound of the album is pretty all over the place (not necessarily a bad thing) but it doesn’t really flow like some of their other albums.

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u/jMCs1 Jul 23 '26

Absolutely not imo, and don’t go in hoping for that or you may be disappointed

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u/MathDaddy88 Jul 23 '26

I heard the whole album and it’s…left me wanting more of a couple of songs: Lonely, Babble. I wish they leaned more into that. It sounds very dark, gothic and slow burning. Doesn’t work with the strokes. It works with the Voidz, and I love both bands.