Private Suit

Private Suit
Studio album by Bettie Serveert
Released	5 September 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) Private Suit (2000) Log 22 (2003)

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]

Professional ratings

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]

Track listing

Music by Bettie Serveert, lyrics by Carol van Dyk, except track 9.

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 (music by De Artsen [nl], lyrics by Joost Visser and Carol van Dyk)
10. "My Fallen Words" – 2:47
11. "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

1. Hay, Carla (2000-09-30). "Bettie Serveert Grows into "Private Suit"". Billboard. Vol. 112, no. 40. p. 17.
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 (eds.). 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.