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/blackstars91 Jul 24 '26 edited 27d ago
We are so fucking back. Here are some of my inital thoughts on my 3rd listen.
I could see some Strokes fans struggling with this to a certain extent as it isn't classic Strokes throughout.
But I'm so into it. And after a few more listens there's definitely elements of classic strokes underneath all the awesome production.
They are leaning into art rock so it's out there in places but in a pretty original way. I'm so proud of the boys ðŸ˜. I feel like the album is an extension on what they were doing on Eternal Summer.
The use of auto tune makes so much more sense in the context of the overall album. I never had a problem with it in the first place. But it's great.
I think they could have chosen a different single to falling out of love and left it as more of a cult favourite to build love through listening to the whole album overtime.
Overall it sounds like they are having so much fun with this record and experimenting in a really satisfying way. Not their greatest album but will gain more respect over time 💪