Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	84/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Cuepoint	A−
Exclaim!	9/10
The Guardian
Mojo
NME	9/10
Pitchfork Media	8.4/10
PopMatters	8/10
Rolling Stone
Uncut	8/10

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

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.

All tracks written by Mary Timony, except "How You Got That Girl" and "Radio On", written by Betsy Wright.

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