The Strokes have issued their new single Going Shopping and announced that their seventh studio album Reality Awaits will be released on June 26.
The New York indie legends began teasing new material last week before confirming the album title and summer release window.
They also mailed cassette copies of Going Shopping to fans ahead of the track’s live debut in San Francisco.
Reality Awaits follows 2020s The New Abnormal and arrives as the band prepare for festival appearances including Coachella, Outside Lands, Just Like Heaven and Summer Sonic.
The group had been linked to new music since 2022, when producer Rick Rubin mentioned recording sessions in Costa Rica.
He said: “I think he was just so excited about where we recorded.
“But I don’t know what to say about it – I don’t have any information on it. It’s not like it’s happening and I’m hiding something. We went and did a bunch of recording. It could come out a year or two years from now – it’s an unknown amount of time when it’ll be finished but, yes, we are working on another record.”
Albert Hammond Jr. later confirmed that the band had completed a significant amount of recording, while frontman Julian Casablancas acknowledged ongoing work but said the project was not close to release at the time.
He said the band had completed “a bunch of recording” but admitted he had no idea when the project would be finished, stressing that it could take “a year or two years” before anything surfaced.
Julian later addressed the speculation on Instagram, acknowledging that the band were indeed working together again but warning fans that they were still far from releasing new material.
Reality Awaits tracklist:
1. Psycho S***
2. Dine N Dash
3. Lonely In The Future
4. Falling Out Of Love
5. Going To Babble On
6. Going Shopping
7. Liars Remorse
8. The Fruits Of Conquest
9. Pros And Cons
