Rips (album)

Rips is the debut studio album by American indie rock band Ex Hex. It was released on October 7, 2014 by Merge Records.

Critical reception
Rips holds a score of 84 out of 100 on the review aggregate site Metacritic, indicating "universal acclaim". Pitchfork writer Aaron Leitko gave Rips a "Best New Music" designation and remarked that the album "mostly finds the band walking away from Timony's established voice and pushing toward something more direct and energetic—embracing the past, but also blowing things up and starting again." Heather Phares of AllMusic wrote that Rips "mixes simple pleasures and complicated ones into a completely life-affirming debut", while Laura Snapes of NME called the album "a reminder of rock’s glorious communal potential".

NME named Rips the tenth best album of 2014. It also placed at number 11 on The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop year-end critics' poll.

Personnel

 * Ex Hex
 * Laura Harris – drums
 * Mary Timony – guitar, vocals
 * Betsy Wright – bass guitar


 * Additional personnel
 * Mitch Easter – engineering
 * Bobby Harlow – mixing
 * Dennis Kane – tracking
 * Johann Kauth – artwork, layout
 * Jeff Lipton – mastering
 * Maria Rice – mastering assistant
 * Jonah Takagi – production, tracking, photography
 * Missy Thangs – recording assistant