Pip Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe)

Pip Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe) is the debut album by the British electronic act Metronomy, originally released in 2006 by Holiphonic Records in the UK.

Pip Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe)
Studio album by
Metronomy
Released25 June 2006
Recorded2002–2006
GenreElectronic, experimental
Length50:46
LabelHoliphonic
ProducerJoseph Mount
Metronomy chronology
Pip Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe)
(2006)		 Nights Out
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

On first release, 500 copies were produced with the CD in a special cloth case with an illustration by the artist Rose de Borman. It was later released in standard gatefold card format with a plain text cover. In April 2013, a limited edition vinyl with the original embossed fabric casing and artwork was released.

The name of the album comes from a vehicle wrecker named Adrian Broadway, who lived in producer Joseph Mount's town of Totnes who claimed he was owed money by a man called Pip Paine. The wrecker would leave wrecked cars around Totnes along with the proclamation "Pip Paine, Pay The £5000 You Owe".[2] A hearse was often seen parked opposite Totnes railway station with this message painted on the side. Joseph describes the album as "the sound of someone living in a musically redundant place trying to make exciting music."[3]

Mount was influenced by an eclectic group of artists whilst he wrote the album, including Frank Zappa, Aphex Twin, LFO, Talking Heads, Les Rythmes Digitales and Kraftwerk.[4]

Track listing
  1. "You Could Easily Have Me" – 3:07
  2. "Love Song For Dog" – 3:19
  3. "Danger Song" – 4:41
  4. "This Could Be Beautiful (It Is)" – 4:10
  5. "Black Eye / Burnt Thumb" – 4:43
  6. "Peter's Pan" – 5:22
  7. "Trick or Treatz" – 4:41 (Lead vocals by Virginia Lipinski)
  8. "The 3rd" – 3:56
  9. "1 String Strung" – 2:43
  10. "Bearcan" – 6:38 (Electric bass by Gabriel Stebbing)
  11. "How Say" – 4:29
  12. "New Toy" – 2:57

2009 bonus tracks

  1. "Are Mums Mates" – 2:15
  2. "In the D.O.D." – 3:18
  3. "Hear to Wear" – 3:28
  4. "Another Me to Mother You" – 4:14

References
  1. AllMusic review
  2. "Metronomy - Pip Paine (Pay The £5000 You Owe)". trashclub.co.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
  3. Archived 3 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine Metronomy Interview
  4. "Metronomy - Pip Paine (Pay The £5000 You Owe)". planetnotion.com. Archived from the original on 3 July 2008. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
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