To understand this album you must first understand the circumstances that created it. Like many other works of art created in the 2010s Almighty So is filled with so much reality that it barely seems like art. Perhaps this was a response to the eternal search for meaning of the 90s. Instead of searching for meaning by examining their own life and environment the artists of the 2010s often put their life and environment in their art and let the reader/listener/viewer examine it. The most ... read more
(Caution this review was fuled by sleep depervation, William Gaddis, and a little too much vyvanse it was also written as I listened to the album for the second time and read the lyrics for the first time so it's a little bit of a collage of scattered thoughts.)
On Almighty so 2 Sosa turns himself into the god of the album with the complete focus being on himself. This doesn't just result in egoism it comes in many forms from the Intro which is focused on his godhood and his image as the god ... read more
A desire to escape through flawed relationships there is love in them but it is flawed and fades away eventually and the search for meaning she is avoiding creeps in. There is one reality throughout all these stories of law and loss and that is entropy. Everything fades and time keeps moving forward. She is able throughout these stories of love and loss which are truly intertwined throughout find some hope, find some meaning.
"Does not man, perhaps, love something besides well-being? ... read more
Brian Wilson was a classical composer in the body of a rock front man.
His character on this album embodies this as he goes through a Don Quixotesque struggle where his ideals don't match with the reality of the world. Adding the world of the composition similar to Quixote these ideals come from the romance of classical music. His struggle to fill the void comes from the world not matching the romanticism the great composers gave it. This is created perfectly in the contrast between the honest ... read more