Vex Ruffin returns with a new EP for Peanut Butter Wolf‘s Stones Throw Records, and it’s available as a free download! No Escape is a 5-song collection of Ruffin’s more recent tracks, and in talking about how the project came about he explains:
“These came from a batch of many songs I made in the past two years. Peanut Butter Wolf and I had a difficult time trying to decide which songs to put out so I closed my eyes and stuck with whatever songs my finger landed on.”
Ruffin creates “minimal” electro-punk, and, interestingly, his music has it’s roots in hip-hop, sampling, and beat making. His compositions are sparse and raw in all the best ways, and combined with his insistent vocal delivery and unadulterated musical style, he is able to distill the very essence of punk music on No Escape. The random means by which the tracks were collected here, results in an exciting listen, and because Ruffin’s approach is experimental, always trying new directions, the EP sounds fresh cut to cut!
