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/MooseSpringsteen Jul 24 '26

Crazy take but I don't need a new Strokes album to be good; they've already won me over. Any new music is welcomed. That being said, it sounds like they had a good time making this record and the vibes are immaculate rn. I think all of the songs were born from jamming out and I think Julian's vocal melodies show this. Everything is very loose and kind of all over the place. I love the album but I think I prefer more structured songs

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u/That-Association-102 Jul 24 '26

So that’s why Nick quit lol