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.^[2] 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's town of Totnes who 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".^[3] 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."^[4]

Joe was influenced by a very eclectic group of artists whilst he wrote the album, including Frank Zappa, Aphex Twin, LFO, Talking Heads, Les Rythmes Digitales and Kraftwerk.^[5]

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^[6]

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

References