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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
Released	25 June 2006
Recorded	2002–2006
Genre	Electronic, experimental
Length	50:46
Label	Holiphonic
Producer	Joseph Mount
Metronomy chronology
Pip Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe) (2006) Nights Out (2008)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
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

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

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