IZZY JONE$ CLASSIC ALBUM “SQUID” RECENTLY TURNED 2, STILL SOUNDS BRAND NEW

SQUID: Its Importance and Influence Are Only Increasing

You know your locked into IZZY JONE$ world when “Samurai Garden (Begin)” is flinging its knowledge and poetics at you like ancent bones or minerals. “Holocaust monopoly” is still my favorite IZZY lline, somehow its disturbing truth went over the heads of the eternally persecuted group that refuse to admit they have a monopoly on both self-pity and self-righteousness.

“Sun” is still the stunner before the stunners that carry us through the second half of SQUID. “Sun” is jazzy, bright, a bit ambivalent but does not even suggest the seering indictment of us all in “Mer-Men [Bump that]”. IZZY conceals some of his cynicism when he spits “I need an NAACP promotion”. It still feels so much more devastating as the Artist pretty much addresses it with a wink and half-nod. It’s as if IZZY steps his toe just over understatement but doesn’t push the embedded cynicism in our faces. Is he testing us? Or mocking us? Or driving us quetly through a desert of paranoia? I still feel he’s purposely created a mixed storm, stinging,,breezy and unbearably humid. It’s as if to say “A century still hasn’t taught you guys how brutal it can be to look like” IzzY in america.

IZZY’s too smart to just give up on teaching us — he reveals only small bits of rot, so that over time we’ll find that SQUID was speaking urgently, as its backstory, mirrored america’s mythical backstory. SQUID is more and more revolutionary and radical each time i listen to it.

I hope IZZY JONE$ keeps the tradition of reminding us of its birthday each year. It’s got secrets IZZY has no intention of leaking. SQUID is IZZY’s subversively gentle nightmare. Not his private nightmare though. Like a OUija board, what’s SQUID plan to tell us in 4 or 5 years?

IZZY’s as hopeful as anyone should be: But we might miss the day when the warning matures.

Another idea the album makes me ponder is that  because it moves so seamlessly that it ends before its sharp points are really felt, it’s a meditation. As it ages, the meditation goal changes.

Someday i will force myself to listen to SQUID for its avant-garde beauty and for IZZY JONE$ celebrated, innocent spitting. It could very well be that i miss the point of SQuID no matter what meaning i attach to it.

Happy 2nd birthday to you SQUID! Lie a 2 year-old child, your complexities grow quicker than you do. And we love you, mysteries and all.

i think SQUID, like a child, gets more complex withe each new year of existence. its creator @fakeizzyjones planned it that way. as he spits in “Dedication”, “welcome to the life of somebody who never did shit.”