[Cover photo credit to Ashley Osborne]

Waterparks have announced details surrounding their sixth studio album, Jinx, to be released July 24, 2026, via BMG/Rise Records. The album will include features from Mark Hoppus of blink-182, Danny Elfman, Eric Nally of Foxy Shazam and Dillon Francis.

The band has also shared a new single and music video for “Prowler”.

Awsten Knight shares:

I wrote “PROWLER” at a time I felt the most isolated last year. 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. So 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. 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.

From the band of Awsten Knight, Geoff Wigington, and Otto Wood, Jinx looks both “inward and outward at once”. Themes of “existential dread, the disorienting cost of visibility, and all-consuming relationships” are expored on the album, alongside “the desperation to find meaning, connection, or even escape.”