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The opening track of Reality Awaits, posted with the rest of the album on the eve of its release on July 24, 2026 – the first thing you hear on the first Strokes record in six years.
The Strokes: Julian Casablancas, Nick Valensi, Albert Hammond Jr., Nikolai Fraiture, Fabrizio Moretti. Produced by Rick Rubin. From Reality Awaits, the seventh Strokes album and the first since The New Abnormal (2020), produced by Rick Rubin – partly in Costa Rica – and released by RCA and Cult on July 24, 2026, after a delay from June. Sources: Wikipedia, Consequence. Photograph: John Margolies, Tower Motel sign, Jacksboro Highway, Fort Worth, Texas, 1995. John Margolies Roadside America archive, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- №
- NMU 260723 B
- artist
- The Strokes
- title
- Psycho Shit
- from
- Reality Awaits (2026)
- producer
- Rick Rubin
- label
- RCA / Cult
- photograph
- John Margolies, Tower Motel sign, Fort Worth, 1995. Library of Congress.
- filed
- July 23, 2026
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