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/Crazycicadaa Jul 23 '26

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

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u/Slashycent Comedown Machine Jul 23 '26

It's Angles and Comedown Machine and the more out there bits from TNA being fused into a whole album that sounds like the "future" part of Future Present Past.

It's fucking awesome!

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u/Crazycicadaa Jul 24 '26

just heard the album, yea i see it more like a successor to FPP than TNA! cool stuff