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If the debut is about the crisis, the sophomore self-titled album, The Fray , is about the wreckage. Produced by Aaron Johnson, the sound expands—strings swell, drums crack harder—but the emotional core shrinks inward. “You Found Me” is the band’s Rosetta Stone. Written after a crisis of faith, the song depicts a literal street-corner confrontation with God, who is smoking a cigarette and looking “a lot like Phillip Seymour Hoffman.” It is a staggering image: the Almighty as a hungover, evasive stranger. The refrain—“Where were you?”—is not a scream of atheism, but a whimper of disappointed faith. This is the core of The Fray’s spirituality: they are too invested to leave, and too hurt to trust. Their most recent studio project
: A CD/DVD set released in 2006 that includes bonus live tracks and music videos. The refrain—“Where were you