Baltimore’s TEEN SUICIDE are streaming their forthcoming double LP, It’s the Big Joyous Celebration, Let’s Stir the Honeypot, in its’ entirety on their Bandcamp today as well as selling digital copies via the site for $5 for a limited time. The album will be released April 1, 2016 on Run For Cover Records.
It’s the Big Joyous Celebration, Let’s Stir the Honeypot is the first release for Teen Suicide since 2012. The band began as the solo project of Sam Ray (Ricky Eat Acid, Julia Brown) with a rotating cast of musicians but has since morphed into a full band. Pre-order for Big Joyous Celebration is now available via the Run For Cover webstore. Teen Suicide will embark on a full US tour on 4/20, all tour dates are below.
Teen Suicide’s new album, It’s the Big Joyous Celebration, Let’s Stir the Honeypot is also, according to the band, their final record. Recorded over fourteen months with a Robert Altman-sized group of collaborators and performers, it’s both a skeleton key for the band’s earlier work & a great corrective addition to it. Updating rather than refuting all of the past themes and styles of their revered first LP “i will be my own hell because there is a devil inside my body”, “Big Joyous Celebration” shifts between punk, noise, country, house & a myriad of other electric dance genres to create something as messy, sprawling, and captivating as its mouthful of a title. Spread over twenty six tracks, there is plenty that Teen Suicide’s swansong has to say for itself in the band’s distinct, enjoyable and refreshingly unique voice.
“9/10” -SPIN
“Eclectic noise pop auteurs… mesmerizing” -NYLON
“Cultishly beloved lo-fi” -Stereogum
“Talk about a cathartic release” -Paper Magazine
Tour Dates:
Apr 20 – Dallas TX @ Gas Monkey$
Apr 22 – Tempe AZ @ The Marquee$
Apr 23 – San Diego CA @ House of Blues$
Apr 24 – Anaheim CA @ House of Blues$
Apr 26 – Los Angeles CA @ Echoplex$
Apr 27 – San Francisco CA @ Slim’s$
Apr 29 – Portland OR @ Wonder Ballroom$
Apr 30 – Seattle WA @ The Showbox$
May 2 – Salt Lake City UT @ Club Sound$
May 3 – Denver CO The @ The Summit Music Hall$
May 5 – St. Louis MO @ The Ready Room$
May 6 – Chicago IL @ Concord Music Hall$
May 7 – Milwaukee WI @ The Rave$
May 8 – Pontiac MI @ The Crofoot Ballroom$
May 10 – Cleveland OH @ House of Blue$
May 11 – Pittsburgh PA @ Stage AE – Indoor$
May 12 – Philadelphia PA @ Theatre of Living Arts$
May 13 – New York NY @ Webster Hall$
May 14 – Worcester MA @ The Palladium$
May 15 – Sayreville NJ @ Starland Ballroom$
May 17 – Washington DC @ 9:30 Club$
May 19 – Carrboro NC @ Cat’s Cradle$
May 20 – Wilmington NC @ Ziggy’s By The Sea$
May 21 – Atlanta GA @ The Masquerade$
May 22 – Nashville TN @ Marathon Music Works$
May 24 – Orlando FL @ Beacham Theater$
May 25 – Tampa FL @ The Ritz Ybor$
May 27 – Houston TX @ House of Blues$
May 28 – Austin TX @ Scoot Inn$$ = w/ Say Anything, mewithoutYou, Museum Mouth