“I’m glad we’ve set the bar and the expectation of, ‘Hey, we’re going to make all kinds of weird shit, and shit that you’re not going to expect…’” grinned Waterparks frontman Awsten Knight back in January when looking ahead to a new record. “We’ve opened the door to be able to anything.” Well, he wasn’t wrong. On the Texan trio’s stunningly bonkers fourth album Greatest Hits (not a compilation of old singles, FYI), Waterparks have genuinely done everything; not so much simply just opening the metaphorical artistic door to give listeners a peek at their sky-high songwriting aspirations, but truly throwing all they have into 17 songs of pure chaotic – but carefully-crafted, don’t forget that – brilliance. That’s no mean feat considering 2019’s FANDOM was an album K...
