It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot
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| Studio album by Teen Suicide | ||||
| Released | April 1, 2016 | |||
| Length | 68:21 | |||
| Label | Run for Cover | |||
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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 double album was released on April 1, 2016 on Run for Cover Records.[1]
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,[2] the band themselves have indicated that they will not be disbanding but merely changing their band name "when our contract is up."
Critical reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 79/100[3] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [4] |
| Consequence of Sound | B+[5] |
| DIY | [6] |
| Exclaim! | 8/10[7] |
| Pitchfork | 7.8/10[8] |
| Spin | 9/10[9] |
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".[3]
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."[9]
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."[8]
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."[6]
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Sam Ray, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Living Proof" | 4:28 | |
| 2. | "The Big Joyous Celebration" | 2:13 | |
| 3. | "Alex" | 2:46 | |
| 4. | "Violets" | 1:42 | |
| 5. | "Obvious Love" | 2:33 | |
| 6. | "It's Just a Pop Song" | 4:01 | |
| 7. | "V.I.P." | 2:07 | |
| 8. | "Wild Thing Runs Free" | 2:39 | |
| 9. | "Bright Blue Pickup Truck" | 2:40 | |
| 10. | "Big Mistake" | 1:13 | |
| 11. | "What You Want" | 2:32 | |
| 12. | "God" | 2:00 | |
| 13. | "Neighborhood Drug Dealer" | 2:11 | |
| 14. | "Have a Conversation" | 1:19 | |
| 15. | "Beauty" | 2:12 | |
| 16. | "Pavement" | 2:00 | |
| 17. | "America" | 2:36 | |
| 18. | "Devotion" | 3:12 | |
| 19. | "The Things I Love Are Killing Me" | 1:35 | |
| 20. | "Falling out of Love with Me" | 3:36 | |
| 21. | "I Don't Think It's Too Late" | 2:39 | |
| 22. | "Long Way Down" | 3:45 | |
| 23. | "My Little World" | 2:23 | |
| 24. | "The Hurricane" |
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2:47 |
| 25. | "The Stomach of the Earth" | 4:33 | |
| 26. | "If I Don't See You before You Leave" | 2:39 | |
Total length: |
68:21 | ||
Personnel
- Teen Suicide
- Sam Ray – music, lyrics, recording (1, 2, 4-21, 23-26)
- John Toohey – additional guitar (3), additional vocals (2)
- Alec Simke – bass (3, 11, 12, 18), additional vocals (2)
- Sean Mercer – drums (1, 3, 22), recording (1, 3, 22), engineering (1, 3, 22), mixing (1, 3, 22), additional vocals (1, 2)
- Additional personnel
- Eric Livingston – drums (12, 18)
- Dexter Tortoriello – additional instrumentation (9), additional production (9)
- Spencer Radcliffe – co-writing (24), additional keyboards (24), additional drums (24), additional lyrics (24), horns (24), additional vocals (2, 6, 13, 24)
- Delaney Mills – additional percussion (5)
- Mat Cothran – additional percussion (5), production (8), drums (8), additional vocals (6)
- Max Kuzmyak – trumpet (1)
- Caroline White – additional vocals (2, 6, 12)
- David Courtright – additional vocals (2)
- Harmony Tividad – additional vocals (2, 4, 9, 13)
- Josephine Ray – additional vocals (2)
- Kinsey Matthews – additional vocals (2)
- Lexi Williams – additional vocals (6)
- Liz Sea – additional vocals (2)
- Madeline Ava – additional vocals (21)
- Neil Sanzgiri – additional vocals (2)
- Owen Pallett – additional vocals (2)
References
- ↑ Grebey, James (2016-03-29). "Stream Teen Suicide’s ‘It’s the Big Joyous Celebration, Let’s Stir the Honeypot’". Spin. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
- ↑ "Teen Suicide - It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot". Run for Cover Records. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
- 1 2 "It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot – Teen Suicide". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
- ↑ Monger, Timothy (2016-03-30). "It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot – Teen Suicide". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
- ↑ Nelson, Geoff (April 4, 2016). "Album Review: Teen Suicide - It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
- 1 2 Richards, Will (2016-03-30). "Teen Suicide - It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot". DIY. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
- ↑ Yassin, Jibril (2016-03-30). "Teen Suicide - It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot". Exclaim.ca. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
- 1 2 Cohen, Ian. Teen Suicide: It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot. Pitchfork Media. 06 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
- 1 2 Sackllah, David (2016-03-24). "Teen Suicide - It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot". Spin. Retrieved 2016-04-10.