''It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot'' is the second studio album by American

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band

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. The album was released on April 1, 2016 on

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Critical reception

''It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot'' received generally favourable reviews from contemporary music critics. At

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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an

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score of 79, based on 6 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". David Sackllah of

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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

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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

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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."

Track listing

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 Dexter Miles Tortoriello (born August 5, 1986) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. He rose to prominence as part of the group Houses and is also known for his work as Dawn Golden and his production for pop and hip-hop artists ...

– 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) * 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 Michael James Owen Pallett (born September 7, 1979) is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist. Under their erstwhile moniker of Final Fantasy, Pallett won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album ''He Poos Clouds''. Pallet ...

– additional vocals (2)

References

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