It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	79/100[6]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Consequence of Sound	B+[7]
DIY	[8]
Exclaim!	8/10[9]
Pitchfork	7.8/10[10]
Spin	9/10[11]

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".[6]

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."[11]

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."[10]

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."[8]

All tracks are written by Sam Ray, except where noted.

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)
• 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)