Tomato Soup’s Half Evil: A Lyrical Passage Into Duality and Disillusionment

Denver’s own Tomato Soup is back with a striking new single, “Half Evil,” an inward, poetic study of a fractured identity and spiritual emptiness in contemporary life. Known for their unique sound of “motor-folk,” the band dives deep into the mind here, blending mythological references, Jungian archetypes, and raw confessional lyricism into one unsettling, slow-burning experience. 

Anchored in references to Hercules and divine lineage, Tomato Soup begins with a mythic tone popular in contemporary songwriting, running the track through the sacred and human. The lyrics unfold like a literary riddle, reminiscent of T.S. Eliot’s fragmentation and Leonard Cohen’s mysticism, as the music maintains a balance of soft acoustic textures offset with sections of gritty tension. This captures the duality that is placed at the center of the title: half light, half dark; half sacred, half fallen.

As the song evolves, Alec Doniger's voice displays a shaken vulnerability, tethering the cerebral references to authentic sentiment. The refrain “Half Evil” cycles, like an incantation, capturing the internal conflict of numerous modern souls in their quest to seek meaning between the noise, anarchy, and nihilism of recently defining times.

When the lyrics descend into the noise of now- “Donald Trump, media, and consumer” the myth devolves into stark absence, existing in the space between irony and pain. "Half Evil" is more than a song; it is a reflection of a divided or morally imbalanced self, an unsettling utterance from a bold band to grapple with the remnants of truth, mistruth, and the overlapping entanglements that exist.

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