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 | |||
Bettie Serveert chronology | ||||
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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]
Aggregate scores | |
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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] |
Music by Bettie Serveert, lyrics by Carol van Dyk, except track 9.
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