Pip Paine is the debut album by the British electronic

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 act Metronomy

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, originally released in 2006 by Holiphonic Records in the UK. 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

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Totnes is a market town and civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty...

 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". 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."

Joe was influenced by a very eclectic group of artists whilst he wrote the album, including Frank Zappa

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, Aphex Twin

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, LFO

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, Talking Heads

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, Les Rythmes Digitales and Kraftwerk

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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