Music news: The Strokes announce ‘Reality Awaits’ album

The New York legends will make a return ‘this summer’ to release their seventh full-length album after a six-year hiatus. 

After the roaring success of 2020’s comeback album, The New Abnormal, it has been quite the period of radio silence from the five-piece. 

Julian Casablancas and co. originally burst onto the scene in 2001 with the release of the classic album ‘Is This It’, cementing themselves as indie music royalty with subsequent releases. 

A leading force for the 2000s garage-rock movement, the group have been credited as direct influences for major acts including Arctic Monkeys, The Killers and Kings of Leon. 

Music News Blitz’s Freddie Thomas-Neher went further into the upcoming release.