Palomine | ||||
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Released | 2 November 1992 | |||
Studio | Sound Enterprise (Weesp) | |||
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Length | 49:12 | |||
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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.
Palomine was released on 2 November 1992 by Brinkman Records in 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 23 June 2023, Matador reissued the album to celebrate it's 30th anniversary. The reissue included an eleven song bonus album titled The Palomine Demos that features demos from 1991-1992. The album, minus the demos, was reissued on vinyl on 7 July 2023. [9] The reissue reached a new peak of number 30 in the Netherlands, [5] while also reaching number 177 on the Belgian Flanders albums chart. [10]
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Source | Rating |
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Entertainment Weekly | A− [2] |
NME | 6/10 [13] |
PopMatters | 8/10 [14] |
Q | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Spin Alternative Record Guide | 8/10 [18] |
Uncut | 8/10 [19] |
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". [15] 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." [12] 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." [20]
Palomine placed at number 15 in The Village Voice 's 1993 year-end Pazz & Jop critics' poll. [21] 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". [22]
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. | Title | Length |
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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
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Leg (Demo Jan '92)" | 5:43 |
2. | "The Kid's Alright (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, Summmer '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 |
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [24]
Bettie Serveert
Production
Design
Chart (1992–1993) | Peak position |
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Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [5] | 43 |
Dutch Alternative Albums (Dutch Charts) [5] | 2 |
Chart (2023) | Peak position |
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Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [10] | 177 |
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [5] | 30 |
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