Private Suit
2000 studio album by Bettie Serveert
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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]
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (80%)[2] |
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| 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