Recorded April 2014 Genre Alternative/Indie | Length 35:09 Rips(2014) Hot and Cold 7"(2014) Release date 7 October 2014 | |
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Released October 7, 2014 (2014-10-07) | ||
Ex hex beast
Rips is the debut studio album by American indie rock band Ex Hex. It was released on October 7, 2014 by Merge Records.
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Ex hex rips album review in 5 minutes
Critical reception
Rips holds a score of 84 out of 100 on the review aggregate site Metacritic, indicating "universal acclaim". Pitchfork Media 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.
Track listing
All tracks written by Mary Timony, except "How You Got That Girl" and "Radio On", written by Betsy Wright.
Songs
1Don’t Wanna Lose2:27
2Beast3:15
3Waste Your Time2:47