Teen Suicide is the Baltimore lo-fi and emo project of Sam Ray, formed in 2010 and also known in its American Pleasure Club era. It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot (2016) shows the full range — fragile bedroom pop to noise — and Honeybee Table at the Butterfly Feast (2023) marked the name's return. Shop Teen Suicide vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Teen Suicide is the recording project of American songwriter Sam Ray, formed in Baltimore, Maryland in 2010. Ray is also known for his work in American Pleasure Club (a renaming of Teen Suicide), the ambient project Ricky Eat Acid, and the pop project Julia Brown. The project built an early following through self-released and Bandcamp recordings before signing with Run for Cover Records. Across its history the act has moved between the Teen Suicide and American Pleasure Club names, reflecting Ray's evolving relationship to the original moniker.
Teen Suicide works in lo-fi, emo, bedroom pop, and noise pop, often blending fragile acoustic songwriting with tape hiss, distortion, and electronic experimentation. The project is frequently associated with the 2010s underground emo and lo-fi internet scenes. Its records range from intimate four-track recordings to denser, more produced arrangements.
Run for Cover has issued vinyl pressings of the project's catalog, including reissues of early material that originally circulated digitally. Pressings of the earliest releases are of particular interest given their initial self-released, limited availability.
Listeners new to Teen Suicide often start with It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot (2016) for its breadth, or the more recent Honeybee Table at the Butterfly Feast (2023). For related work, see and .
