Private Suit
Private Suit is the fourth studio album by Dutch indie rock band Bettie Serveert, and their first to be released on Parasol Records. It was released on 5 September 2000 through Parasol's subsidiary Hidden Agenda Records.[1] It received generally favorable reviews from critics, with a score of 80 out of 100 on the critic review aggregator site Metacritic.[2] One critic who did not like the album was Keith Harris, who wrote in the Chicago Reader that he thought the album "sounded false".[3]
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (80%)[2] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| Austin Chronicle |  [5] |
| Entertainment Weekly | C+[6] |
| Pitchfork | 4.9/10[7] |
| PopMatters | favorable[8] |
| The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | [9] |
| Village Voice | A–[10] |
| Wall of Sound | 91/100[11] |
| Private Suit | ||||
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| Released | 5 September 2000 | |||
| Recorded | Weesp, Netherlands | |||
| Genre | Indie rock, pop rock | |||
| Length | 45:38 | |||
| Label | Parasol Records | |||
| Producer | John Parish | |||
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Track listing
Music by Bettie Serveert, lyrics by Carol van Dyk, except track 9.
- "Unsound" – 4:32
- "Satisfied" – 3:41
- "Private Suit" – 4:32
- "Mariachi Souls" – 3:19
- "Recall" – 5:18
- "Auf Wiedersehen" – 3:52
- "Sower & Seeds" – 4:35
- "White Tales" – 4:20
- "John Darmy" – 3:10 (music by De Artsen, lyrics by Joost Visser and Carol van Dyk)
- "My Fallen Words" – 2:47
- "Healer" – 4:49
Personnel
- Bettie Serveert
- Carol van Dyk – vocal (all tracks), guitar (1,3-8,10,11), marimba (2), piano (2,4), hammond (11)
- Peter Visser – guitar (1-3,5-9,11), synthesizer (1,2,5), backing vocal (1), organ (2,9), marimba (2,11), piano (5,8,10), vibraphone (11)
- Herman Bunskoeke – bass (1-3,5-11), backing vocal (1), keyboard (2,8), piano (11)
- Reinier Veldman – drums (1-3,5-11), octopad (2,5,11)
- Additional personnel
- Buni Lenski – violin (2,3,10)
- Simon Lenski – cello (2,3,10)
- Pascal Deweze – piano (6), backing vocal (6,8)
- Allan Muller – backing vocal (6), synthesizer (8)
- Bart Vincent – backing vocal (7,9)
- John Parish – organ (1), tambourine (1,9,11), rhodes (2,9), congas (2,11), dobro (4), hammond (7), piano (8), marimba (11), producer, mixing, mastering
- Sytze Gardenier- engineer
References
- Hay, Carla (2000-09-30). "Bettie Serveert Grows into "Private Suit"". Billboard. Vol. 112, no. 40. p. 17.
- "Private Suit". Metacritic.
- Harris, Keith (17 April 2003). "Bettie and Me". Chicago Reader.
- Ankeny, Jason. "Private Suit Review". AllMusic.
- Moser, Margaret (13 October 2000). "Private Suit Review". Austin Chronicle.
- Scherman, Tony (2000-09-08). "Music Review: 'Private Suit'". Entertainment Weekly.
- Rockermann, Kristin Sage (5 September 2000). "Private Suit Review". Pitchfork Media.
- Fufkin, David (4 September 2000). "Private Suit Review". PopMatters.
- Harris, Keith (2004). "Bettie Serveert". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743201698.
- Christgau, Robert (19 September 2000). "Afropop Worldwide". Village Voice.
- Gulla, Bob. "Private Suit Review". Wall of Sound. Archived from the original on 20 November 2000.
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