Palomine

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Palomine
Palomine.jpg
Studio album by
Bettie Serveert
Released2 November 1992 (1992-11-02)
StudioSound Enterprise (Weesp)
Genre
Length49:12
Label
Producer
  • Bettie Serveert
  • Frans Hagenaars
  • Edwin "Hank" Heath
Bettie Serveert chronology
Palomine
(1992)		 Lamprey
(1995)
Singles from Palomine
  1. "Tom Boy"
    Released: 1992
  2. "Palomine"
    Released: 1992
  3. "Kid's Allright"
    Released: 1993

Palomine is the debut studio album by Dutch indie rock band Bettie Serveert. It was released on 2 November 1992 by Brinkman Records and Guernica, and by Matador Records in the United States the following year.

Contents

Release

Palomine was released on 2 November 1992 by Brinkman Records in the Benelux and by the 4AD subsidiary label Guernica in the United Kingdom. [3] [4] Upon its release, the album charted at number 43 in the Netherlands. [5] In the United States, it was issued by Matador Records on 7 January 1993. [3] [6] Three singles were released from Palomine: "Tom Boy" and "Palomine" in 1992, [7] the second of which reached number 122 on the UK Singles Chart, [8] and "Kid's Allright" in 1993. [7]

On 7 July 2023, Matador reissued Palomine on vinyl to celebrate the album's 30th anniversary. [9] In the Benelux, it was also reissued on CD by Bettie Serveert's own Palomine Records label, bundled with an eleven-song bonus disc titled The Palomine Demos that features demos recorded from 1991 to 1992. [10] [11] The reissue reached a new peak of number 30 in the Netherlands, [5] while also reaching number 177 on the Belgian Flanders albums chart. [12]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [13]
CD Review Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [14]
Entertainment Weekly A− [2]
NME 6/10 [15]
PopMatters 8/10 [16]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [17]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [18]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [19]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 8/10 [20]
Uncut 8/10 [21]

Q reviewer Martin Aston commented that Palomine "is produced with a bar band intimacy that amplifies the sparse, roaming spaces at the heart of the music", and that "Carol van Dijk has a vibrant, husky voice, capable of plaintive, precocious passion and gutsy ferverishness". [17] Stephanie Zacharek, writing for CD Review , said that as a vocalist, van Dijk "taps into" the subtleties of her "austere" lyrics and "brings home, in words, the sorts of things that are otherwise best communicated by a wry smile or the flutter of eyelashes." [14] Spin 's Jim Greer stated that the album juxtaposes "Van Dijk's suspiciously accurate Long Island-inflected langour with the slow, intense sloppiness of the band to form one glorious mess of sound", while also finding Bettie Serveert's songwriting remarkably mature for an indie rock band. [1] In The New York Times , Jon Pareles wrote that the band's songs "echo the clear-cut melodies and verbal directness of Neil Young and the garage-rock scruffiness of his collegiate-rock heirs, like Dinosaur Jr." [22]

Palomine placed at number 15 in The Village Voice 's 1993 year-end Pazz & Jop critics' poll. [23] Robert Christgau, the poll's creator, awarded it a "two-star honorable mention" and remarked, "by the time the tunes grow on you, you'll be wondering why the songs never get where they're going". [24]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Carol van Dijk, except where noted; all music is composed by Bettie Serveert (Herman Bunskoeke, Van Dijk, Berend Dubbe, and Peter Visser), except where noted.

No.TitleLength
1."Leg"6:11
2."Palomine"4:09
3."Kid's Allright"4:20
4."Brain-Tag"6:26
5."Tom Boy"4:21
6."Under the Surface"4:17
7."Balentine"4:11
8."This Thing Nowhere"3:18
9."Healthy Sick" (lyrics and music by Lou Barlow)2:23
10."Sundazed to the Core"7:05
11."Palomine (Small)"2:31
Total length:49:12

Notes


30th anniversary CD reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
12."Smile"3:42
13."Maggot"2:40
14."Get the Bird"3:22
Total length:58:56
30th anniversary CD reissue bonus disc – The Palomine Demos
No.TitleLength
1."Leg" (demo Jan '92)5:43
2."The Kid's Allright" (demo Jan '92)4:30
3."Tom Boy" (demo Jan '92)3:24
4."Totally Freaked Out" (demo Jan '92)3:55
5."Get the Bird" (demo Jan '92)3:02
6."This Thing Nowhere" (demo Jan '92)3:19
7."Maggot" (demo Jan '92)2:42
8."Palomine (Small)" (Carol acoustic, summer '92)2:10
9."Leg" (Carol acoustic, fall '91)3:41
10."Balentine" (acoustic, summer '92)4:17
11."Brain-Tag" (Carol acoustic, summer '92)4:08
Total length:40:51

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [26]

Bettie Serveert

Production

Design

Charts

Chart (1992–1993)Peak
position
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [5] 43
Dutch Alternative Albums (Dutch Charts) [5] 2
Chart (2023)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [12] 177
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [5] 30

References

  1. 1 2 Greer, Jim (December 1992). "Bettie Serveert: Palomine". Spin . Vol. 8, no. 9. pp. 91–93. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
  2. 1 2 Robbins, Ira (22 January 1993). "Palomine". Entertainment Weekly . Archived from the original on 22 May 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Bettie Serveert History 1982–1993" (PDF). bettieserveert.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 May 2023. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  4. 1 2 Palomine (press advertisement). Guernica. 1992. Archived from the original on 22 May 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Dutchcharts.nl – Bettie Serveert – Palomine" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
  6. ↑ Giles, Jeff (17 May 1993). "A Dutch Treat". Newsweek . p. 70.
  7. 1 2 "Singles". bettieserveert.com. p. 1. Archived from the original on 5 May 2001. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  8. ↑ "Chart Log UK: Darren B – David Byrne". Zobbel.de. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  9. ↑ "Bettie Serveert → Palomine Reissue". Matador Records . Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  10. ↑ Bettie Serveert (4 July 2023). "Besides the awesome Palomine LP being re-issued by Matador Records, the Betties will also release this special 2CD of Palomine (incl 'The Palomine Demos') in the Benelux only on July 7!". Facebook . Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  11. ↑ "Bettie Serveert – Palomine 30th Anniversary Edition". Plato . Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  12. 1 2 "Ultratop.be – Bettie Serveert – Palomine" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
  13. ↑ Raggett, Ned. "Palomine – Bettie Serveert". AllMusic . Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  14. 1 2 Zacharek, Stephanie (May 1993). "Bettie Serveert: Palomine". CD Review . Vol. 9, no. 9. p. 64.
  15. ↑ Dalton, Stephen (7 November 1992). "Bettie Serveert: Palomine". NME . p. 37.
  16. ↑ Lee, Christopher J. (22 August 2023). "Bettie Serveert Shine Again on the Re-released 'Palomine'". PopMatters . Retrieved 31 May 2024.
  17. 1 2 Aston, Martin (January 1993). "Bettie Serveert: Palomine". Q . No. 76. p. 78.
  18. ↑ Ali, Lorraine (29 April 1993). "Bettie Serveert: Palomine". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on 8 March 2008. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  19. ↑ Harris, Keith (2004). "Bettie Serveert". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p.  67. ISBN   0-7432-0169-8.
  20. ↑ McDonnell, Evelyn (1995). "Bettie Serveert". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. pp. 37–38. ISBN   0-679-75574-8.
  21. ↑ Wallace, Wyndham (July 2023). "Bettie Serveert: Palomine". Uncut . No. 314. pp. 43–44.
  22. ↑ Pareles, Jon (1 May 1993). "Pop and Jazz in Review". The New York Times . p. 1.18. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  23. ↑ "The 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll". The Village Voice . 1 March 1994. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
  24. ↑ Christgau, Robert (2000). "Bettie Serveert: Palomine". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 25. ISBN   0-312-24560-2 . Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  25. ↑ Brain-Tag (liner notes). Bettie Serveert. Guernica. 1992. GU 3 S.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  26. ↑ Palomine (liner notes). Bettie Serveert. Brinkman Records. 1992. BRCD 004.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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