Private Suit

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Private Suit
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Studio album by
Released5 September 2000 (2000-09-05)
Recorded Weesp, Netherlands
Genre Indie rock, pop rock
Length45:38
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]

Contents

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic (80%) [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Austin Chronicle Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Entertainment Weekly C+ [6]
Pitchfork 4.9/10 [7]
PopMatters favorable [8]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [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
Additional personnel

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