WATERPARKS! Awsten Knight on New Album 'Jinx,' Internet Chaos & Reinventing the Band!
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🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Awsten Knight is the lead singer, songwriter, and creative force behind the band Waterparks, known for blending pop-punk, alternative, electronic, and hyperpop influences into one of the most unique sounds in modern rock. With the release of their new album Jinx, Awsten continues to push the band's chaotic, emotional, and genre-bending style that has built a massive cult fanbase worldwide.
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| 0:00.0 | Where do you think Jinks lies in the overall Parks Cinematic Universe? After all the others. It's definitely like forward. I'm going to say it's after fandom, after greatest hits. Yeah, it is kind of the whole thing. Awesome! Three years in the making. And now we're months away. Yes. How do you feel? Good. |
| 0:21.6 | Scared. It's getting down to the wire. Album's all done. Yes. Now it's just out there. What's the final thing touches? The visuals, all the other components of it, the other sensory things matter so much, like almost as much as the music. Some cases just as much. Like we're doing all the like more photos, videos. |
| 0:39.5 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:40.1 | Like coming up with, like, cool, immersive, like, music video type things. The 360 world, the water parks always does. Right. So now we're kind of in that phase of it, because that part doesn't have to be pressed to vinyl, which takes, like, four months or whatever. Oh, it's that long. It's that long. Yeah. I think it's because Taylor Swift takes up all the plants, right? |
| 0:57.9 | That's probably what happens. Is that what that is? I remember them saying it was either like her or Adele. Like, let them do it. Who cares? But if they're selling those albums, go for it. But I do remember them saying like a while back, they're like, it's going to take this |
| 1:12.4 | long. I'm like, why? And they're like, well, right now, like, they're burning 20 million Taylor Swift |
| 1:18.8 | vinyl or whatever. I'm like, okay, it makes sense. Oh, that's crazy. Yeah. I feel like the new |
| 1:23.0 | album is the perfect mix of experimental and intentional to push water parks to the next phase of life. |
| 1:30.3 | That's beautiful. |
| 1:31.3 | I think you've mastered the writing process and who you are as a band. |
| 1:36.5 | That makes me really happy for you. |
| 1:38.0 | It makes me happy to hear and happy that you're saying that and that you feel that way. |
| 1:41.1 | From the first track to the last track, like honestly. |
| 2:02.0 | Okay, so you've heard it. I've listened to him many many times. Amazing. That makes me. Okay. Wait, what are your favorites? Can I know? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. It's so I don't have, I don't have it like... I'll start on a website so I have to keep clicking it. Right, of course. Oh yeah, yeah. So it's hard. Tell me why. Red guitar, if lyrics are confidential. |
| 2:03.7 | I love all. |
| 2:04.3 | The ones you have. No, five. It's on a website, so I have to keep clicking it. Right, of course. Oh, yeah, yeah. So it's hard. |
| 2:01.2 | Tell me why. |
| 2:02.0 | Red guitar. |
| 2:02.8 | If lyrics are confidential. |
| 2:19.2 | I love all. The ones you have, I think my absolute favorite, though, any minute now. Oh, okay. Amazing. Dude, it makes me happy because, like, people have so many different favorites. Like if everybody was like, clearly this one's the one, I'd be like, damn, I wish the others were that good. |
| 2:17.7 | But like everybody's got different favorites. Like if everybody was like, clearly this one's the one, I'd be like, damn, |
| 2:22.1 | I wish the others were that good. But like everybody's got different favorites. Because the way that you write from the melodies to the guitar, all really stand out so differently. So I think |
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