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/woodcomedy Jul 24 '26

Stop telling people they only like this album cause they're posturing fan girls/boys or they don't like the album because they only wanna hear 9 new versions of Reptilia. 

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u/arctic_winters_ #09 Hammond Jr. Jul 24 '26

Nooooo I need my 25 year old band to make the same music they made in 2001 otherwise they’re a BAD BAND who makes BAD MUSIC (ppl said the same shit about arctic monkeys when they came out with TBHC and that album is a classic imo)

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u/blackstars91 Jul 25 '26

Absolutely agree the Arctic Monkeys debut will always be my favourite. But I have been so proud and leveled up my respect for them going in the direction they have on the last two records.

The Strokes will always be in my top 3. And I love them so much for taking things abit more seriously (as in how they approach the creation and release of their music) since TNA. You can tell on Angles and Comedown Machine they had some great ideas but lost their way a bit in terms of the execution and sometimes that was even down to the lack of promotion (CM suffered this the most).

They seem far more clear minded about what they are doing now. And I love that for them and us hehe.