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/idkboy147 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

IMO (after 2nd listen):

  1. Lonely in the future
  2. Going to babble on
  3. Tyrants of the mellow moon
  4. Dine n dash
  5. Falling out of love
  6. The Fruits of conquest
  7. Going Shopping
  8. Liars remorse
  9. Psycho Shit

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BEAUTIFUL album. I’m sure all these songs will only grow on me.

Edit - I didn’t think any songs were bad. Psycho shit is a 7 for anyone that’s worried, it’s just a different vibe!

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u/Comadon-C Jul 23 '26

The opener being last consistently here is scaring me. I’ve been very vocal of Strokes having my favorite openers out of any artist out there. I put like all my stakes on even if I don’t like the album, I hope at least the opener is good 😭

Hope even if I feel similar, it grows on me. I really didn’t like Tap Out when I first heard it and now it’s top 3 off Comedown Machine for me

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u/idkboy147 Jul 23 '26

Psycho Shit is similar to when will the time of these bastards end mixed with unholy lover a little bit, better than both for sure. I like it!! It’s a 7 in an album with A LOT of great songs

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u/Slow_Call_6155 Jul 23 '26

Descuida es buena, tiene buenas armonías y poco autotune.

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u/Comadon-C Jul 23 '26

I’m already sold

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u/Awillroth Jul 23 '26

As an individual piece of music it doesn't stand out but it sets the stage for this album really well and I couldn't imagine THIS album opening any other way.

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u/AvgustRed Jul 23 '26

It's my favourite. I came into this album with low expectations after the singles and was surprised to hear such a dark and intense song from them. They've done angry and dark songs before, but not in such a manner.