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Waterparks have announced their sixth studio album, JINX, out July 24 via BMG/Rise Records. JINX will include features from Mark Hoppus of blink-182, Danny Elfman, Eric Nally of Foxy Shazam, and Dillon Francis.
“PROWLER” — the next single from the album following “ANY MINUTE NOW,” “IF LYRICS WERE CONFIDENTIAL,” and “RED GUITAR” — explores a period of intense isolation and destabilization after parting ways with their longtime team and label.
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“I wrote ‘PROWLER’ at a time I felt the most isolated last year,” vocalist Awsten Knight says. “I really hate change, and for the first time since anyone knew who Waterparks was, we separated from (almost) all of our old team and our record label. This was one of the biggest changes we could’ve experienced, and on top of that, when one is as busy as I am, your friends are naturally 99% work-related.
“It felt like losing almost everyone I knew, even tangential friends, while also feeling like career-wise the floor was falling out from under me,” Knight continues. “I don’t mean to sound dramatic, but sometimes it is that deep. This song is a reflection of the extremely concentrated sadness I felt over those months while trying to rebuild my world.”
Watch the video for “PROWLER,” plus see the artwork for JINX and the tracklist below.
Waterparks – JINX tracklist
- “TELL ME WHY” (feat. Mark Hoppus, Danny Elfman, Eric Nally, and Dillon Francis)
- “RED GUITAR”
- “IF LYRICS WERE CONFIDENTIAL”
- “PROWLER”
- “BETTER THAN THERAPY”
- “NOBODY BUT YOU”
- “GWEN STEFANI”
- “NO NO NO NO NO”
- “PLAYING MUSIC”
- “MIRAGE”
- “TASTES LIKE TANGERINE”
- “ANY MINUTE NOW”
- “GIRLS NEED GUNS”
