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Album Review: Vex Ruffin - Vex Ruffin

Dylan Stewart

Vex Ruffin is filled with passion and angst, but lacks enough substance to warrant devotion.



If pulsating riffs, wailing licks and impassioned vocals are your thing, it's probably time you met Vex Ruffin. And if you like your riffs, licks and post-punk attitude mixed with a sampler and some beats, Vex Ruffin is as good an introduction as you could hope to have with this Los Angeles native. Stones Throw forged a reputation for genre-pushing artists, but considering the label's foundations are rooted in the electronic genre, Ruffin stretches the boundaries once more. Vex Ruffin is filled with passion and angst, but lacks enough substance to warrant devotion.