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"The Rip" is a song by English band Portishead. It was released on 9 June 2008 as the second single from their third studio album, Third (2008). The animated music video for the song made by Nick Uff was first broadcast on 12 May 2008, on the band's website. The song peaked at number 98 in France and was listed at #199 on Pitchfork's top 500 songs of the 2000s. Garrett Kamps of The Village Voice called the song "so good it may have been worth waiting 10 years for".[1]

"The Rip"
Single by Portishead
from the album Third
Released	9 June 2008
Recorded	2005–2008
Genre	Folktronica krautrock
Length	4:29
Label	Island Mercury
Songwriter(s)	Geoff Barrow Beth Gibbons Adrian Utley
Producer(s)	Portishead
Portishead singles chronology
"Machine Gun" (2008) "The Rip" (2008) "Magic Doors" (2008)

The song has been used in an advertisement campaign for the Gucci Bloom line of perfume.[2]

Track listing

1. "The Rip" – 4:30
2. "Silence" (Portishead live on Current TV) (EU digital download bonus track; Japan iTunes Store bonus track) – 4:37
3. "The Rip" (EU and Japan iTunes Store bonus video) – 4:10

Charts

Chart (2008)	Peak position
France (SNEP)[3]	98

References

External links

• Official site
• Village Voice review
• Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke's acoustic cover of The Rip on YouTube

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