This was followed by the digital-only self-release of their second Christmas-themed EP "Christmas with Parenthetical Girls" that same year, as well as their second album "Safe as Houses" (released by Slender Means Society in the United States and Acuarela Discos in Europe), the expanded CD reissue of the "(((GRRRLS)))" album, and a third self-released Christmas EP "A Parenthetical Girls Family Christmas" in 2006. A split 7-inch with the band The Dead Science was released by Obsolete Vernacular in 2007. "Entanglements", the group's orchestral third album, was released in September 2008 as a split release via Tomlab and Slender Means Society.