Greatest Hits Tracklist
Greatest Hits is the fourth studio album from the band Waterparks and is their first release with 300 Entertainment. It covers a sweeping range of genres and styles, pushing boundaries even further than the band’s 2019 release, FANDOM.
During the band’s interview with Rock Sound in issue #276, Awsten Knight mentioned how the album is intended to feel like the experience of nighttime:
The bulk of the album is like a dream sequence […] I want it all to feel like what is gone through in the course of a night.
Thematically, Greatest Hits is the night time to FANDOM’s day, with the title track even featuring the familiar ticking noise heard at the end of FANDOM’s final track, “I Felt Younger When We Met”. In an May 2021 interview with Kevan Kenney, Knight described the beginning of Greatest Hits in relation to its connection to FANDOM:
In the first track, […] that’s like the end of FANDOM and kind of like, you know, going home afterwards and like kind of going to sleep.
Upon release, the album was praised by fans and received positive reviews from critics, such as NME, Dork and Kerrang!.
“Greatest Hits” Q&A
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Was the album teased prior to its announcement?
Unsurprisingly, Awsten Knight had teased the title a few times. Possibly the oldest teaser is inside the lyric book included in the CD release of FANDOM from October 2019. The words ‘Next Greatest Hits’ can be found in the booklet, which were unnoticed until Knight revealed the secret in March 2021.
Knight also mysteriously tweeted the album title on March 14, 2021; however, many fans took it with a pinch of salt as Knight had also been teasing the term “Graffiti Head.”
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What were the singles for this album?
There have been six singles released from Greatest Hits: “Lowkey as Hell,” “Snow Globe,” “Numb,” “You’d Be Paranoid Too (If Everyone Was Out to Get You),” “Just Kidding,” and “Violet”.
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What has the artist said about the production elements of the album?
Greatest Hits presents even more detailed production than 2019’s Fandom. Awsten Knight worked very closely with Zakk Cervini and even claims his first producer credit on a Waterparks album, which he was proud to announce on Twitter before the album’s release.
