Thank you madpawn for your insights.
I can see how you find excess to be necessary in the final realization of the album. It is looking at the excess as an "aesthetic" choice.
I also found it interesting that you cited the lyrics in themselves to "reveal" the sort of intentionality of excess.
However, I find that the aesthetic choices were poor in that the "excess" could probably be executed better. Perhaps if the title track were the longest track in which deals with a loose theme of excess and the other tracks dealt with something else and were less, then the aesthetic of excess would be easier to come to terms with. I feel that the theme of excess need not require an album length of 2 hours.
Granted, there are albums in which are near that length that I love, but the intentionality that you are suggesting madpawn is what I find unsuccessful.