• Record Label: N/A
  • Release Date: Apr 13, 2018
Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. The Wire
    Jul 12, 2018
    80
    What’s exceptional about Novelist Guy is the ease with which he remakes grime in his own image, gifting it a breadth and charm and appeal others have struggled for over a decade to synthesize. [Jun 2018, p.62]
  2. Mixmag
    Jul 6, 2018
    80
    As you might guess, it’s not all fun and games, but there’s bone-dry lyrical wit and absolute clarity of voice (no guest spots!)--and its understanding of bleep and bass tonality gives it instant appeal. [May 2018, p.116]
  3. Apr 16, 2018
    80
    Grime is now a maturing genre, with room for a multiplicity of voices and subject matters. And in Novelist, grime now has an upstanding and versatile outlier.
  4. Q Magazine
    Apr 13, 2018
    80
    In its street-level politics, lucid delivery and hypnotic hooks, Novelist Guy is confirmation that this wave has a lot further to roll yet. [Jun 2018, p.107]
  5. 80
    Every sentiment on Novelist Guy is deeply felt.
  6. Apr 23, 2018
    70
    Novelist Guy remains a very promising debut from a young artist who has already placed himself at the forefront of grime’s equally promising future.
  7. Apr 13, 2018
    70
    It seems as if Novelist made the album he wanted to make, despite the external pressures, and gave us a project which is sonically, socio-politically and unapologetically grime.

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