Pip Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Pip Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe)
| type = studio
| artist = Metronomy
| cover = Metronomy – Pip Paine (2005 original).jpeg
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| released = {{Start date|2005|02|14|df=y}}
| recorded = 2002–2004
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| studio =
| genre = Electronic, experimental
| length = 50:46
| label = Holiphonic
| producer = Joseph Mount
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| prev_year =
| next_title = Nights Out
| next_year = 2008
| misc = {{Extra album cover
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| type = studio
| cover = Pip Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe) (Front Cover).jpg
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| caption = 2006 reissue cover
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{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r865268|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]
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Pip Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe) is the debut album by the British electronic act Metronomy, originally released on 14 February 2005 by Holiphonic Records in the UK.{{Cite web |date=2005-02-14 |title=Metronomy Album Available Online |url=http://www.holiphonic.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050406130932/http://www.holiphonic.com/ |archive-date=2005-04-06 |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=Holiphonic Records}}
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 reissued in June 2006 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".{{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}} 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."[http://www.musicomh.com/interviews/metronomy_0908.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203204623/http://www.musicomh.com/interviews/metronomy_0908.htm|date=3 December 2008}} Metronomy Interview
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.{{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 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703163849/http://www.planetnotion.com/features/metronomy_interview.html |archivedate=July 3, 2008 }}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing = Joseph Mount.
| title1 = You Could Easily Have Me
| length1 = 3:07
| title2 = Love Song For Dog
| length2 = 3:19
| title3 = Danger Song
| length3 = 4:41
| title4 = This Could Be Beautiful (It Is)
| length4 = 4:10
| title5 = Black Eye/Burnt Thumb
| length5 = 4:43
| title6 = Peter's Pan
| length6 = 5:22
| title7 = Trick or Treatz
| length7 = 4:41
| title8 = The 3rd
| length8 = 3:56
| title9 = 1 String Strung
| length9 = 2:43
| title10 = Bearcan
| length10 = 6:38
| title11 = How Say
| length11 = 4:29
| title12 = New Toy
| note12 = hidden track
| length12 = 2:57
| total_length = 50:46
}}{{Track listing
| headline = 2009 expanded edition bonus tracks
| title13 = Are Mums Mates
| length13 = 2:15
| title14 = In the D.O.D
| length14 = 3:18
| title15 = Hear to Wear
| length15 = 3:28
| title16 = Another Me to Mother You
| length16 = 4:14
| total_length = 64:01
}}
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