2000 studio album by Bettie Serveert
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]
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 [nl] , 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.
^ a b "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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Herman Bunskoeke
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