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Pitchfork
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New York outfit's seventh album sums up the band themselves - sometimes brilliant, often frustrating, but always worth listening to
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I’m a huge advocate for Auto-Tune when it's used with purpose, but here it feels like it's fighting against everything that made The Strokes great
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The veteran band’s latest album is an at times thrilling, often inscrutable, sometimes straight-up bizarre addition to their story
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Reality Awaits
It’s The New Abnormal with fewer guardrails, with a dash more Voidz, with whatever nutso energy comes from recording with Rick Rubin in Costa Rica
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