Waterparks confirm brand-new album, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

We’ve had a string of brilliant Waterparks singles this year (FUNERAL GREY, SELF-SABOTAGE and FUCK ABOUT IT), and happily it turns out they’ve all been leading to a brand-new album.

The trio’s just-announced fifth full-length goes by the name INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, and it’ll drop in “spring 2023” via Fueled By Ramen.

The album cover looks like this:

And here’s the full tracklist – featuring those three massive 2022 singles, plus plenty more:

1. ST*RFUCKER
2. REAL SUPER DARK
3. FUNERAL GREY
4. BRAINWASHED
5. 2 BEST FRIENDS
6. END OF THE WATER (FEEL)
7. SELF-SABOTAGE
8. RITUAL
9. FUCK ABOUT IT
10. CLOSER
11. A NIGHT OUT ON EARTH

Speaking to Kerrang! a few months back about this next era of the band, Awsten Knight shared of the follow-up to last year's Greatest Hits: “A lot of what’s been – and being – written is very extroverted, because Greatest Hits was conceptually over the course of a night, and had a lot of references to indoor shit, and this one I wanted to feel almost like a reintroduction into daytime.

“And that’s kind of how things are right now – I’m not saying, ‘Everything’s over, throw away your masks!’ I’m not saying that at all, but people are going back out into the world, and they’re re-socialising and re-experiencing things again for the first time in a long time, and a lot of these songs are about those kinds of connections.”

Waterparks hit the UK next year, supporting You Me At Six at the following:

February 2023

1 Plymouth Pavilions
3 Glasgow Barrowland
6 Manchester O2 Victoria Warehouse
9 Nottingham Motorpoint Arena
10 Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
11 London Alexandra Palace

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