 The band released its second album, "Separation Sunday", on May 3, 2005.The album was a loose concept album following the exploits of a character named "Holly" (short for "Hallelujah") and her quest to find a balance between Catholicism and rock and roll through drugs and a metaphorical resurrection.The album was critically lauded, and its religious overtones were picked up by many critics, such as Joe Gross of the "Village Voice", who dubbed it "the most egregiously American Catholic album since X's "Under the Big Black Sun", Springsteen's "Tunnel of Love", or that Jewish new waver Billy Joel's "The Stranger"."