It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot | ||||
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Studio album by Teen Suicide | ||||
Released | April 1, 2016 | |||
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Length | 68:21 | |||
Label | Run for Cover | |||
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Singles from It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot | ||||
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It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot is the second studio album by American rock band Teen Suicide. The album was released on April 1, 2016 on Run for Cover Records.
Although various outlets—including the band's label Run for Cover Records—have referred to It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot as Teen Suicide's final album, the band themselves have indicated that they will not be disbanding but merely changing their band name "when our contract is up."
In late 2017, Teen Suicide announced that their new band name was, “American Pleasure Club” which makes this the last album under the Teen Suicide name.
It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot received largely positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, based on 6 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".
David Sackllah of Spin praised the album, stating, "For a lo-fi project, Celebration is a particularly imaginative, lengthy work full of vivid character portraits, using additional instrumentation and computer-generated distortion to expand far beyond the boundaries of more straightforward guitar-driven indie acts."
Ian Cohen of Pitchfork Media gave the album a favorable review, stating, "The directness with which it speaks to its audience makes it easy to imagine Celebration inspiring a lot of its younger listeners to start a band. For anyone else, it’s just an inspiring testament to indie rock’s continued vitality."
Will Richards of DIY was more critical of the album, stating, "Teen Suicide’s final act is nigh-on impossible to categorise or fully digest, and its nature and length makes it at the same time a difficult listen, but one that brings rewards of all different kinds across its running length."
All tracks written by Sam Ray, except where noted.