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 September 5, 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 |   |
| Austin Chronicle |  |
| Entertainment Weekly | C+[6] |
| Pitchfork | 4.9/10[7] |
| PopMatters | favorable[8] |
| The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
| Village Voice | A–[10] |
| Wall of Sound | 91/100[11] |
| Private Suit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | September 5, 2000 | |||
| Recorded | Weesp, Netherlands | |||
| Genre | Indie rock, pop rock | |||
| Length | 45:38 | |||
| Label | Parasol Records | |||
| Producer | John Parish | |||
| Bettie Serveert chronology | ||||
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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
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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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