Novelist holds grime at arm’s length on new ‘Snitches’ track

Former XL Recordings grime star Novelist is shifting his focus away from that hyped-to-heaven genre - a fact that’s never been clearer than on new track ‘Snitches’.

The quick-fire track finds Novelist’s newly-invented Ruff Sound genre (“this is not 160 grime” he makes very clear in that new manifesto) take centre-stage instead. All frantic vocal samples and footwork energy, it’s a marker of a transitionary period for the South London prodigy.

Taken from his incoming ‘Tugg Set Vol. 1’ release, stream ‘Snitches’ below.