Pip Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe)

Infobox Album
Name = Pip Paine (Pay The £5000 You Owe)
Type = studio
Artist = Metronomy


Released = June 252006
Recorded =
Genre = electronic, IDM
Length =
Label = Flagicon|UK Holiphonic
Producer = Joseph Mount
This album = Pip Paine (Pay The £5000 You Owe)
Next album = Nights OutExtra album cover
Upper caption = UK Re Release Cover
Background = lightsteelblue

"Pip Paine (Pay The £5000 You Owe)" was the debut album by the British electronic act Metronomy, originally released in 2006 by Holiphonic Records in the UK. [cite web|title=Metronomy - Pip Paine (Pay The £5000 You Owe)|url=http://www.discogs.com/release/839977|publisher=Discogs.com|accessdate=2007-08-01] . On first release 500 copies were produced with the CD in a special cloth case, it was later released in standard gatefold card format.

The name of the album comes from a car wrecker who lived in Joseph town of Totnes who was owed money by a man called Pip Paine. The car wrecker would leave wrecked cars around Totnes with the proclamation Pip Paine, Pay The £5000 You Owe. [cite web|title=Metronomy - Pip Paine (Pay The £5000 You Owe)|url=http://www.trashclub.co.uk/interviews.shtml#met|publisher=trashclub.co.uk|accessdate=2007-08-01] . Joseph describes the album as "the sound of someone living in a musically redundant place trying to make exciting music." [ [http://www.musicomh.com/interviews/metronomy_0908.htm] Metronomy Interview]

Joe was influenced by all sorts of artists whilst he wrote the album; Frank Zappa, Aphex Twin, LFO, Talking Heads, Les Rhythms Digitales and Kraftwerk are just a few. [cite web|title=Metronomy - Pip Paine (Pay The £5000 You Owe)|url=http://www.planetnotion.com/features/metronomy_interview.html|publisher=planetnotion.com|accessdate=2007-08-01]

Track listing

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

References