In January 2015, Low Cut Connie announced the completion of their third album, Hi Honey, and was released on April 21, 2015, via Weiner's Contender Records. Rolling Stone included Call Me Sylvia on its list of the 100 Best Albums of the 2010s. Barack Obama included the song 'Boozophilia' from Call Me Sylvia on his Spotify summer playlist in 2015. Rolling Stone also likened the album's gritty DIY aesthetic to the work of the Replacements. PopMatters gave the album a score of 7 out of 10, favorably comparing Weiner's piano playing to that of Jerry Lee Lewis.

Call Me Sylvia currently holds a score of 80% on Metacritic, indicating 'generally favorable reviews,' including a 4-out-of-5 star review from AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine. Original guitarist Neil Duncan departed the band shortly after the album's release. in advance of the record's release on September 24, 2012. The band began work on their second album, Call Me Sylvia, in 2011. Independently recorded and released in 2011, Get Out the Lotion garnered surprising critical attention, including an 'A−' from Robert Christgau writing for MSN, and high marks from NPR's Ken Tucker, who praised Weiner's 'buzzsaw yowl.' The album also prompted Merrill Garbus to name Low Cut Connie her 'favorite artist of the year,' and was awarded 3.5 out of 5 stars by Rolling Stone, which described it as 'what indie rock might sound like were it invented in Alabama in the late Fifties.' Call Me Sylvia At the time of recording, the band and project were both unnamed. This initial collaboration was informal in nature. The band recorded songs written by both Weiner and Finnemore, with Duncan engineering. The group recorded their debut album, Get Out the Lotion, in guitarist Neil Duncan's garage in Gainesville, Florida, over a period of four days in the summer of 2010. He later drew a sketch of a diner waitress from southern New Jersey and decided that she was 'Connie.' The drawing is on the cover of the band's debut album. After one band member suggested 'the Low Cut' as a potential band name and another suggested 'the Connies,' Weiner combined the two names and dubbed the project Low Cut Connie. Weiner started the project that would become Low Cut Connie with former members Dan Finnemore (from Birmingham, England) and Neil Duncan (from Gainesville, Florida). He toured throughout North America and Europe playing to sometimes unforgiving crowds in dive bars, honky tonks, anarchist squats, warehouses and drag bars.

While living in New York City, he played piano in gay bars, karaoke bars, restaurants, and ballet classes- often under the name Ladyfingers.

And this retelling of the story will continue on in history, as we pass down this album and its experiences to our children.Weiner performed extensively as a solo artist prior to forming Low Cut Connie. So after The Black Parade alter ego died at the end of the tour, not only did we the fans carry on the legacy of the album, but also the memory of seeing The Black Parade band 'In the Flesh'. Remember that Gerard genuinely thought this would be MCR's last album, therefore making this their last tour and last concert performance. This is the death of The Black Parade alter ego, as their time to tell this story is over. And ultimately, the memory of The Patient 'Will carry on.' (Haha, see what I did there.)Īt the end of the final show of The Black Parade tour in Mexico, Gerard says after 'Famous Last Words' ends, 'THE BLACK PARADE, IS DEAD!!!' This in itself has significance. ) The Black Parade Band are essentially the messengers who spread the word, so that others can remember the story. (Gerard even puts himself in the shoes of the Patient by dying his hair. In fact, they act as if it were a play of sorts, even singing in the perspective of different characters from the story. So basically, every time the band played the album live, they were acting as the Black Parade who lived through this event, and they are telling this tale of death as if it were a sort of legend/ campfire story to be learned from. It would make a lot of sense thematically and playing it live. What if it's not the Patient who is in fact telling the story in a first person perspective, but the actual Black Parade band (MCR's onstage alter ego during the album tour).

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