{"id":14087,"date":"2026-07-24T09:31:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/24\/the-strokes-reality-awaits-review-a-perfect-marriage-of-mayhem-and-melody-on-their-best-album-in-years-culture-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T09:31:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:31:25","slug":"the-strokes-reality-awaits-review-a-perfect-marriage-of-mayhem-and-melody-on-their-best-album-in-years-culture-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/24\/the-strokes-reality-awaits-review-a-perfect-marriage-of-mayhem-and-melody-on-their-best-album-in-years-culture-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strokes: Reality Awaits review \u2013 a perfect marriage of mayhem and melody on their best album in years Culture | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(RCA\/Cult)<\/strong><br \/>Allying the crackpot strangeness of Julian Casablancas\u2019 side projects with his band\u2019s gift for pop minimalism, the New Yorkers are on playful, joyous form<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a sentence no old-head Strokes fan wants to hear: to understand Reality Awaits, the stalwart NYC group\u2019s seventh album and first in six years, you first have to understand the Voidz. Julian Casablancas\u2019s other<em> <\/em>band has been taking up more and more of his time in recent years, much to the chagrin of fans who may have dipped into the group\u2019s painfully, awkwardly proggy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2014\/oct\/12\/julian-casablancas-tyranny-review-bloody-minded-sonic-tantrum\">2014 debut Tyranny<\/a> and decided to just let the old legend have his fun (away from their own speakers, of course). Anyone who decided to listen further will have found that the Voidz have turned into a great, crowd-pleasing, safely experimental zone for Casablancas to pull out some of the most energised, goofy work of his career. If you\u2019re thinking <em>I come to this guy for cool,<\/em> <em>not <\/em>goof<em>, <\/em>I don\u2019t know what to tell you: this is a man who spends interviews <a href=\"https:\/\/i-d.co\/article\/julian-casablancas-voidz-interview-conspiracy-theories-2024\/\">discussing his theories<\/a> about ancient Sumerian culture.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wgmuradio.com\/album-review-the-voidz-virtue-2018\/\">2018 Voidz record Virtue<\/a> is a high point of Casablancas\u2019s entire catalogue: a gentle stylistic mixed bag that covers winsome pop-rock, yacht rock, bedroom pop and much more. That album seemed to clear the decks for the Strokes\u2019 last record, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2020\/apr\/11\/the-strokes-the-new-abnormal-review-new-found-focus\">2020\u2019s The New Abnormal<\/a>, on which they sounded the most like their 2001 selves since Is This It. That album is now the definitive Strokes album for gen Z \u2013 go to any Strokes show and watch the younger contingent light up during The Adults Are Talking \u2013 but it didn\u2019t presage a long-term back-to-basics route for Casablancas and co. On Reality Awaits, by sheer force of will, he fuses the crackpot strangeness and, ahem, fondness for AutoTune of the Voidz with the Strokes\u2019 minimalism and pop melodicism.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/jul\/24\/the-strokes-reality-awaits-review\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/jul\/24\/the-strokes-reality-awaits-review\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/630e9930d297c1d21b3eaed2e0de0abf0dd5dbe6\/430_104_2640_2112\/master\/2640.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4aa3d7c005db4e08d3994bd5b9c369e9\" title=\"The Strokes: Reality Awaits review \u2013 a perfect marriage of mayhem and melody on their best album in years\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(RCA\/Cult)Allying the crackpot strangeness of Julian Casablancas\u2019 side projects with his 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