{"product_id":"the-strokes-reality-awaits-indie-exclusive","title":"The Strokes - Reality Awaits [Indie Exclusive]","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSix years after The New Abnormal, The Strokes return with their seventh studio album and a familiar collaborator behind the board. Reality Awaits reunites the band with Rick Rubin, who produced their Grammy-winning last record, and this time the sessions carried them all the way to Costa Rica. The result pulls in two directions at once: back toward the lean, wiry immediacy that made their name, and further into the moodier, synth-tinged territory the band has spent the last decade mapping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAcross nine songs, from the coiled \"Psycho Shit\" and \"Dine N'Dash\" to the closing \"Tyrants of the Mellow Moon,\" the album balances jagged garage-rock energy with the group's more atmospheric instincts. Lead singles \"Going Shopping\" and \"Falling Out of Love\" show off both sides, with Julian Casablancas leaning into AutoTune as a stylistic tool rather than a crutch, bending his voice into the record's stranger corners. It is the sound of a band still willing to upend expectations rather than coast on a formula they invented.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMore than twenty years into one of indie rock's defining catalogs, The Strokes remain restless, and Reality Awaits extends that streak without repeating itself. It is a record that sounds both unmistakably like this band and unlike anything else they have made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis indie-exclusive edition is pressed on black ice glitter vinyl via RCA \/ Cult Records. A striking pressing of a long-awaited return, and one worth grabbing while the exclusive lasts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AMS","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl","offer_id":47478355853474,"sku":null,"price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0633\/5024\/3490\/files\/image-url_thumbnail.webp?v=1785179393","url":"https:\/\/staticatx.com\/products\/the-strokes-reality-awaits-indie-exclusive","provider":"Static ATX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}