Separation Sunday

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  2005

  James

  The Hold Stead build an entire emotional world out of Catholic guilt, addiction, parties, damaged friendships, and desperate nights that stretch into morning. Craig Finn writes with novelistic detail while the band plays massive bar-band rock that turns every scene into communal mythology. Characters drift through the songs searching for transcendence in chemicals, sex, religion, or music itself. It understands how self-destruction ("The ER looked like an after bar") can become a kind of social ritual.