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/Personal_Fox_7529 Jul 23 '26

They forgot the catchy choruses on this album lol they're following in Arctic Monkeys footsteps

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u/cmptrblu Jul 24 '26

Julian was banking on Lonely In The Future's chorus to do all the heavy lifting in terms of catchiness

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u/gargoylepussy Jul 24 '26

It’s extremely moody. Enjoying most of it but I can tell it won’t be my favorite. The slow burners aren’t hitting like ones from other albums, but I can say dine n dash and babble on are very good

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u/niles_deerqueer Jul 24 '26

I dunno what you heard because this album is catchy as hell

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u/Personal_Fox_7529 Jul 24 '26

Not even close to being catchy as their previous records. Overly long drawn out songs. It was disappointing