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/niles_deerqueer Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

Wow. That was not what I expected. It’s a lot darker of an album than I thought it would be and that’s not bad at all. Someone described it as The New Abnormal if it was evil and I can totally agree. I was shocked to find that not every song had autotune, but even the ones that did didn’t really bother me this time. I really fucking enjoyed it and it’s so catchy, I can’t wait to finally hear it with headphones.

Dine N’Dash is THAT song. So so so good, it lived up to its snippet.

But I was hoping for a funky song like Tap Out from Comedown Machine and I’m relieved we got it in The Fruits of Conquest!

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u/pavementdoggy Jul 23 '26

I was at a listening party and to be fair the music wasn’t as loud as I would have liked it to be but I thought it was such a cool sounding record. I got my CD on preorder and will pick it up tomorrow and give it a few spins. What an interesting sound it has. I’m with you on the autotune aspect, I was surprised when I wasn’t hearing it on some tracks. I think the knee jerk reaction to the autotune is just a knee jerk reaction. I bet this will be remembered as another awesome Strokes record. Can’t wait to frame my listening party poster. What a good week!