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| Released | October 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 in October 1992 by Brinkman Records. [4] The album was issued in the United Kingdom by the 4AD subsidiary label Guernica on 2 November 1992, [5] and in the United States by Matador Records in 1993. [6]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [7] |
| Christgau's Consumer Guide |  [8] |
| Entertainment Weekly | A− [2] |
| NME | 6/10 [9] |
| PopMatters | 8/10 [10] |
| Q |  [11] |
| Rolling Stone | [12] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [13] |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 8/10 [14] |
| Uncut | 8/10 [15] |
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". [11] Writing for Spin , Jim Greer said 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] At the end of 1993, Palomine placed at number 15 on The Village Voice 's Pazz & Jop critics' poll. [16]
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [18]
Bettie Serveert
Production
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| Chart (1992–1994) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [19] | 43 |
| Dutch Alternative Albums (Dutch Charts) [19] | 2 |
| UK Albums (OCC) [20] | 122 |
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