I didn't like it at first, but Reality Awaits grows on you. I think my initial problem with it is that I couldn't get behind the autotuned voice in most of the songs. And I still can't really get behind it. It seemed at odds with the kind of spacey art-rock feel of the instrumentals. "Dine N'Dash" is my favorite song on the album partly because it isn't overly autotuned, partly because it has a very Radiohead energy about it.
But I think it's impressive for a band that has been active for so long to put out something that sounds like a departure from their "normal" sound. I actually wonder if that is why it gets better with repeated listens; I was expecting something similar to Is This It or The New Abnormal and didn't get that experience. It can be hard to drop those expectations that you have for a band and meet them where they are now.
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