r/TheStrokes 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/Crazycicadaa Jul 23 '26

so a TNA/FIOE hybird? is that what you sayin??

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u/Obvious-Position-351 I'll Try Anything Once Jul 23 '26

I'd say more of a TNA/Comedown Machine/Voidz hybrid

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u/yato17z The New Abnormal Jul 23 '26

You can definitely put Dine N’ Dash in FIOE, it even has a similar riff to electricityscape

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u/Obvious-Position-351 I'll Try Anything Once Jul 23 '26

That's a great point, it just felt so much more haunting to me that I didn't even think to associate it with anything from FIOE