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Pip Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe)
Electronic · 2006 · 12 tracks

Pip Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe)

Metronomy

A jittery, lo-fi collection of bedroom electronics and aggressive guitar stabs. It is the sound of a mechanical toy box being dismantled and reassembled in the dark.

2006 · Because Music

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A restless and jittery mechanical energy that feels both playful and slightly paranoid.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks
01
You Could Easily Have Me
3:07
02
Love Song for Dog
3:19
03
Danger Song
4:41
04
This Could Be Beautiful (It Is)
4:11
05
Black Eye / Burnt Thumb
4:43
06
Peter’s Pan
5:22
07
Trick or Treatz
4:41
08
The 3rd
3:56
09
1 String Strung
2:43
10
Bearcan
6:39
11
How Say
4:30
12
New Toy
2:58
Moments Worth Listening For
The sudden, jarring transition into the aggressive, overdriven guitar riff on track 1.
The way the mechanical, toy-like melody of Love Song for Dog feels both charming and slightly menacing.
The hypnotic, extended rhythmic build-up and release during the six-minute stretch of Bearcan.
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How does Pip Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe) sound next to the rest of Metronomy's catalogue?

Surreal Abstract+4.0σ

The writing leans far further into surreal abstract than the rest of the catalogue.

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