Private Suit

Private Suit
Studio album by Bettie Serveert
Released September 5, 2000 (2000-09-05)
Recorded Weesp, Netherlands
Genre Indie rock, pop rock
Length 45:38
Label Parasol Records
Producer John Parish
Bettie Serveert chronology
Plays Venus in Furs and Other Velvet Underground Songs
(1998)Plays Venus in Furs and Other Velvet Underground Songs1998		 Private Suit
(2000)		 Log 22
(2003)Log 222003

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]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic(80%)[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Austin Chronicle[5]
Entertainment WeeklyC+[6]
Pitchfork4.9/10[7]
PopMattersfavorable[8]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide[9]
Village VoiceA–[10]
Wall of Sound91/100[11]

Track listing

  1. Unsound – 4:32
  2. Satisfied – 3:41
  3. Private Suit – 4:32
  4. Mariachi Souls – 3:19
  5. Recall – 5:18
  6. Auf Wiedersehen – 3:52
  7. Sower & Seeds – 4:35
  8. White Tales – 4:20
  9. John Darmy – 3:10
  10. My Fallen Words – 2:47
  11. Healer – 4:49

Personnel

  • Pascal Deweze – piano, background vocals
  • Sytze Gardenier- engineer
  • Buni Lenski – violin
  • Simon Lenski – cello
  • Allan Muller – background vocals
  • John Parish – congas, Fender Rhodes, mastering, mixing, organ, producer, tambourine
  • Peter Visser – guitar, marimba, organ, synthesizer, background vocals

References

  1. ↑ Hay, Carla (2000-09-30). "Bettie Serveert Grows into "Private Suit"". Billboard. Vol. 112 no. 40. p. 17.
  2. 1 2 "Private Suit". Metacritic.
  3. ↑ Harris, Keith (17 April 2003). "Bettie and Me". Chicago Reader.
  4. ↑ Ankeny, Jason. "Private Suit Review". AllMusic.
  5. ↑ Moser, Margaret (13 October 2000). "Private Suit Review". Austin Chronicle.
  6. ↑ Scherman, Tony (2000-09-08). "Music Review: 'Private Suit'". Entertainment Weekly.
  7. ↑ Rockermann, Kristin Sage (5 September 2000). "Private Suit Review". Pitchfork Media.
  8. ↑ Fufkin, David (4 September 2000). "Private Suit Review". PopMatters.
  9. ↑ Harris, Keith (2004). "Bettie Serveert". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743201698.
  10. ↑ Christgau, Robert (19 September 2000). "Afropop Worldwide". Village Voice.
  11. ↑ Gulla, Bob. "Private Suit Review". Wall of Sound. Archived from the original on 20 November 2000.
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