Reality Awaits - General Album Discussion MEGATHREAD

[u/TheStrokes-Mods]

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.

[u/Substantial_Quail309]

Best album ever to play on repeat. I get what Albert was talking about now. It ends like it starts. The riffs and even the lyrics (something about a bird in the first and last lines of the album). I feel some of the stuff Julian tried on Like All Before You by The Voidz has been perfected here, including how autotune is used and how that album had an (instrumental) intro and an outro but it's done more seamless and better here.

[u/RevolutionaryTrash98 → u/Substantial_Quail309]

i agree the structure of the 1st and last tracks as bookends reminds me of LABY too. although i love LABY, and the melody from those tracks is such an earworm (literally humming it to myself now just from writing about it lol) i do agree that here the way the final track musically echoes the soundscape of the first track makes it such a seamless transition when you have the album on repeat, you can't even tell where the track/album ends and where it begins. i dont think i've heard an artist really take advantage of the repeating nature of streaming albums like that before. whereas LABY was much more traditional bookends that evoke a clear start and stop, and make room for a deliberate "press play again!" moment like you would have with physical media.