Very few of the rough edges that defined Teen Suicide's earlier material - notably their first album i will be my own hell because there is a devil inside my body and EPs such as waste yrself or DC Snuff Film - remain. It comes across something like an audio collage or a beat tape, stitched together and casually jumping all over the place from style to style: collegiate indie rock, country, vocoder experiments and folk all make their appearances here. With a track list boasting 26 tracks and a runtime of over an hour, its best accomplishment is avoiding feeling overstuffed. Make no mistake Joyous Celebration is a dense, ambitious listen. So the Baltimore band's sigh-of-relief new double-album, "It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot", comes with a question: How best to update, revise and tie up their tumultuous history in one single gesture?Īs it turns out, that's not an easy thing to sum up. A reunion album seemed rather unlikely given bandleader Sam Ray's looming interest in his Julia Brown and Ricky Eat Acid projects. In many ways, getting a return statement from Teen Suicide is amazing in and of itself their 2013 breakup seemed destined to send the band into cult status, known by only a few but beloved by them all.
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