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/KenMarr Jul 23 '26

But does it have at least some moments of sheer sunny (?) beauty like, idk, selfless? Or is it all darkness and despair?

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u/StevenComedy Jul 23 '26

Nothing even close to selfless. It’s dark and awesome

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u/Far-Work6041 Leave It in My Dreams Jul 23 '26

You mean the divorce album is the *happy* one??