Bleep

Following Novelist and Mumdance’s excellent ‘Take Time’, released by Rinse in 2014, the duo team up again for ‘1 Sec’ and ‘Shook’, released by titanic independent label XL Recordings. ‘1 Sec’ is an instant anthem, coming with a no-frills intensity and a murky sense of dread. On ‘Shook’, the blend of Novelist’s Rottweiler flow and Mumdance’s breakdown instrumental leaves dancefloors and radio selectors reaching for the rewind. The track’s instrumentals round out the release, putting the emphasis on Mumdance’s murky hardware production: minimalistic but punishingly loud, they’re grimy in the literal sense of the word. The EP is also a savvy signing from XL, their first proper grime release since putting out records from Dizzee Rascal and Wiley in the early 2000s.