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Rabbit in Your Headlights

1998 single by Unkle featuring Thom Yorke

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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"Rabbit in Your Headlights" is a song by the British electronic duo Unkle, released on their debut album, Psyence Fiction (1998). It features vocals from the Radiohead singer, Thom Yorke, who wrote it with the Unkle member Josh Davis. The music video, directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Denis Lavant, was listed among the greatest by Rolling Stone and Pitchfork. Yorke has performed "Rabbit in Your Headlights" in solo shows and with his side project Atoms for Peace.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rabbit in Your Headlights” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.