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██▓▀ Album......[ Pip Paine (Pay The 5000 You Owe) ▀▓██
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▓▓█▓▀ ██ Language...[ English ██ ▀▓█▓▓
▀ ▄████ Rip Date...[ 2006-06-15 ████▄ ▀
▄ ▀ ▓█▓ Store Date.[ 2006-05-06 ▓█▓ ▀ ▄
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▀█▓▀ Quality....[ 189 kbps AVG VBR 44.1/Joint Stereo ▀▓█▀
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█▓ 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 6:38 ▓█
█▓ 11 How Say 4:29 ▓█
█▓ 12 New Toy 2:57 ▓█
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█░█ It may have not seemed at all like it, but █░█
█░█ Richard D. James was more-or-less a working █░█
█░█ entity this past year, albeit in the arch-cryptic █░█
█░█ manner we've all grown accustomed to as of late. █░█
█░█ Again going by AFX, he output over three hours of █░█
█░█ music in eleven 12" installments sequentially █░█
█░█ dubbed Analord altogether making for an epic █░█
█░█ recreation-as-elegy of IDM both as culture - █░█
█░█ collecting sides! - and genre. But while James █░█
█░█ spent '05 more or less mourning his lost circuit █░█
█░█ city, east of Cornwall in bustling Brighton his █░█
█░█ legacy was being re-programmed. █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ Landing in this Southern England seaside town █░█
█░█ from his native Devon, with a G3 bought off his █░█
█░█ dad after college, drummer Joseph Mount became █░█
█░█ Metronomy and in February of 2005 local and █░█
█░█ mail-order record shops found themselves with █░█
█░█ copies of the long-playing Pip Paine (Pay Back █░█
█░█ the 5000 You Owe). By year's end, acts as █░█
█░█ diverse as French space-age crooner Sebastian █░█
█░█ Tellier, grime star Lady Sovereign and even Franz █░█
█░█ Ferdinand would be putting in remix requests. The █░█
█░█ latter even invited Mount for an opening slot. █░█
█░█ "2005 was amazing," he says, "I did so many █░█
█░█ things that I never expected to be doing so █░█
█░█ soon." That's not to say Mount has by any means █░█
█░█ been an overnight sensation. By his own █░█
█░█ admission, along with the checks received from █░█
█░█ remix commissions, Mount has "managed to get by █░█
█░█ doing [...] the odd bit of sound design work along █░█
█░█ with the occasional soundtrack." █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ Released on the Holiphonic label (who will also █░█
█░█ reissue the disc with a fuller-scale campaign █░█
█░█ this year), Pip Paine is a breezy debut that █░█
█░█ clears the clutter of IDM's plug-in riddled █░█
█░█ cabinets and regains the mode's jubilant and █░█
█░█ playful melodicism. It's in the cartoon squiggles █░█
█░█ and sawtooth strut of "Danger Song," the █░█
█░█ hacked-cartridge fantasia of "Peter's Pan" and █░█
█░█ the mousy scrambling of "The 3rd"; but always as █░█
█░█ transposition, not tribute. In Mount's own words, █░█
█░█ "I can still distinctly remember the day that I █░█
█░█ took the needle off my Team Doyobi record and █░█
█░█ decided to listen to some Blackstreet instead." █░█
█░█ Granted, there's certainly more scatterings of █░█
█░█ Doyobi dribble than Teddy Riley new jack swing on █░█
█░█ Pip Paine but it's clearly a work informed less █░█
█░█ by braniac technicity than pop abstracted. Mount █░█
█░█ continues, "I used to really love Funkstorung, █░█
█░█ Autechre, Kid 606, etc. but feel like they've all █░█
█░█ hit a brick wall with what they're doing." Maybe █░█
█░█ he's suggesting that if IDM had ditched the █░█
█░█ manuals and patch upgrades, it would have been █░█
█░█ able to surmount its self-made barriers and find █░█
█░█ something else beyond the desert of command-bar █░█
█░█ blank space: maybe something like Pip Paine's █░█
█░█ pixilated flora. █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ There's the skittering jazz skins and Rhodes █░█
█░█ languor of "Love Song for Dog," which reels like █░█
█░█ Millions Now Living-era Tortoise minus the █░█
█░█ long-faces and proggy vistas. "At the moment I'm █░█
█░█ playing Metro Area to death," he says and the █░█
█░█ slinky "Trick or Treatz" is evidence enough, █░█
█░█ doling out glitch-garlanded basement disco that █░█
█░█ features the album's sole voice, a hissy █░█
█░█ androgynous cut-up. But it's when Mount plays █░█
█░█ along to his beatbox syncopations with a guitar █░█
█░█ that something approaching a minor "hauntology" █░█
█░█ arises. (Simon Reynolds coined the phrase when █░█
█░█ describing the Ghost Box label.) In "Black █░█
█░█ Eye/Burnt Thumb," "1 String Strung" and album █░█
█░█ closer "How Say," Mount strums innocuous bedroom █░█
█░█ chords on a ratty electric while his machines █░█
█░█ output Moogy simulacra of something like brass █░█
█░█ band music in fierce laser hues. Mount's contours █░█
█░█ may be far more defined than those of Belbury █░█
█░█ Poly or the Focus Group - hence the "minor" - but █░█
█░█ they all seem to equally enact archaeologies of █░█
█░█ the future through sonic phantasmagorias of an █░█
█░█ alternate, faded Albion. █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ Metronomy performs live backed by a duo known as █░█
█░█ the Food Group: Gabriel Stabbing (bass guitar, █░█
█░█ keys, hand claps, funny dances) and Mount's █░█
█░█ cousin Oscar Cash (melodica, keys, drum machine, █░█
█░█ hand claps, funny dances). Though there have only █░█
█░█ been five Metronomy shows so far, his forthcoming █░█
█░█ EP You Could Easily Have Me finds him dishing out █░█
█░█ rawer content, perhaps with the limitations and █░█
█░█ immediacy of performance in mind. When asked what █░█
█░█ his plans are for the New Year, Mount even █░█
█░█ professes that, "I imagine I'll be hitting the █░█
█░█ road quite hard with the boys." █░█
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█░█ The title track off the new disc crossbreeds █░█
█░█ "Come to Daddy" screams, some (frankly) Manic █░█
█░█ Street Preachers riffage and Halloweenie organs █░█
█░█ into a stomping groove while the wistful "Another █░█
█░█ Me to Mother You" and "The Loss of a Wheel, Pt. █░█
█░█ 2" both hang Pignose jangle over clattering toy █░█
█░█ boxes. It's not much of a surprise, then, when he █░█
█░█ states that "I'm not currently listening to that █░█
█░█ much electronic music," just after rattling off █░█
█░█ the Concretes and Wilco as recent home stereo █░█
█░█ fixtures. █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ When asked about the future of Metronomy beyond █░█
█░█ 2006 - which, at the moment does not yet include █░█
█░█ a single American appearance - Mount jokes, "I █░█
█░█ expect that by then we'll all be riding hover █░█
█░█ boards and eating space food. I suppose that the █░█
█░█ internet will continue to break a lot of new █░█
█░█ bands, and the charts will be sponsored by █░█
█░█ mothercare as it'll only be children that still █░█
█░█ buy singlesà Metronomy will be going through his █░█
█░█ acid phase I hope, I might have a real beard by █░█
█░█ then." With Pip Paine behind him and facial-hair █░█
█░█ aspirations like these, it may be time to ready █░█
█░█ tubs for another Analogue Bubblebath. █░█
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