Waterparks have long enjoyed toying with the unexpected. This was none more apparent than on March 27 of this year, when frontman Awsten Knight announced on Twitter – and without his usual caps-lock trademark, thus signifying Proper Serious Business – that he had deleted the files for what would have been the Houston trio’s planned third full-length, Friendly Reminder. “Sounds like a joke, but I thought about a lot on the last tour and I have different things to say now,” he wrote, sending an entire fanbase into panic mode. Gone was the red colour scheme planned for album number three (to follow the yellow of debut Double Dare, and the purple of last year’s Entertainment), and with it rumoured song titles like Noise, Lemonade and Glitter Times. In that binned album’s eventual place, we now...
