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It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot
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  • Summary: The second full-length release for the Maryland indie band is said to also be its final release.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Spin
    Mar 30, 2016
    90
    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.
  2. Consequence
    Apr 4, 2016
    83
    It’s the Big Joyous Celebration is remarkable for its scope and its granularity.
  3. Exclaim
    Mar 30, 2016
    80
    It's a potent celebration of their past work and a capable endnote to the band's career, whether it truly is the their final release or not.
  4. Pitchfork
    Apr 6, 2016
    78
    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.
  5. AllMusic
    Mar 30, 2016
    70
    While it's not all good, there are some sublime moments within the album's ramshackle bulk, and its blast of free-range creativity is in itself something to celebrate.
  6. DIY Magazine
    Mar 30, 2016
    60
    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.

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  1. GTMoor
    Apr 8, 2016
    9
    Teen Suicide's latest release is equal parts bizarre, and extraordinary. Although it may not appeal to every listeners tastes it manages toTeen Suicide's latest release is equal parts bizarre, and extraordinary. Although it may not appeal to every listeners tastes it manages to capture the feelings and emotion that it sets out to. However, although the album has a low point or two. The sheer variety of style and sound on this record completely makes up for it.

    While songs like "America" "Violets" and "If I Don't See You Before You Leave" are slow, beautiful cacophonies (mainly the latter). Songs like "It's Just a Pop Song" brings a somewhat faster pace, and slightly louder sound to the album. But... even with a great record there can still be a low point. For me this comes from "Beauty" which simply feels like an ironic mess. Although it is not a terrible song, it can still be quite difficult to sit through. This brings up another issue with the album for me, the length. A 26 track record, although only just over an hour long, can seem overwhelming to most people. Especially newcomers to Teen Suicide.

    Finally, I need to give praise to "Stomach Of The Earth" a track that was an unexpected love of mine. At first I wasn't sure how I felt. But this has quickly grown to be one of my favorite tracks of the album, and one of my favorites of the year (so far).

    Although it may have a low point or two, nothing holds back Teen Suicide from producing an incredible record with outstanding emotion, atmosphere, and style. This is easily an early contender for best record of the year in my books.    … Expand

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