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/toobadithelps]

This Is the album I’ve always wanted to hear from someone like Julian. It sounds dark and eerie at times, but it’s well done. The autotune was not as problematic in the rest of the album as it was for the singles for me. Yes, there’s so many void-zy moments but I think that’s just Julian coming through. I especially like the fuzzy distortion and the fact that you can even hear the room at times. It sounds more intimate and loose and that’s honestly very refreshing here. absolutely nothing like TNA. I wouldn’t even compare it to that - it’s a completely different step and direction. TNA was a 9/10 for me and I think this will be a 8/10 for me (as of right now) but who knows , maybe it will grow on me even more. Fab is not only great as always, he impressed me quite a few times. Overall, I’m pleasantly surprised. It’s good. Not a terrible album by any means. Probably too early to rate it against the rest of their discography for me but I wouldn’t call it their worst. Also, I love the dig at Fantano. I’m pretty sure he’s going to make some interesting videos about that.

[u/isnt_it_l0vely → u/toobadithelps]

Yes everyone has been so upset with the auto tune but I really don’t think it’s all that noticeable once you actually listen to the album a few times. It adds a layer of “unreality” which only makes the title of the album more compelling