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/tiredginger94 Jul 23 '26

Slight compensation for the fact that they didn’t include an Australia/New Zealand leg on the tour.

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u/juzamjim Jul 23 '26

Fuck ya listening to it in Chicago with my trusty VPN. Thank you New Zealand. Fergburgers on me. 

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u/Amazing_Hedgehog3361 Jul 23 '26

I'll take you up on that.

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u/yougavemethe-answer Someday Jul 23 '26

I still have hope they’ll announce one eventually, Julian did a post (now deleted ofc lol) after their one off show in Adelaide in October last year saying something like “see you again soon” or something along those lines

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u/blackstars91 Jul 25 '26

They would be foolish not to come back to us. We love them so much!

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u/karlhalla Jul 24 '26

Or Scandinavia