''Private Suit'' is the fourth studio album by Dutch indie rock band

Bettie Serveert Bettie Serveert is a Dutch indie rock band. The name translates to "Bettie Serves", or "Service to Bettie", which is the title of a book written by Dutch tennis player Betty Stöve, who made it to the Wimbledon Ladies Singles final in 1977. ...

, and their first to be released on

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. It was released on September 5, 2000 through Parasol's subsidiary

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. It received generally favorable reviews from critics, with a score of 80 out of 100 on the critic review aggregator site

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. One critic who did not like the album was Keith Harris, who wrote in the ''

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'' that he thought the album "sounded false".

Track listing

Music by Bettie Serveert, lyrics by Carol van Dyk, except track 9. #"Unsound" – 4:32 #"Satisfied" – 3:41 #"Private Suit" – 4:32 #"Mariachi Souls" – 3:19 #"Recall" – 5:18 #"Auf Wiedersehen" – 3:52 #"Sower & Seeds" – 4:35 #"White Tales" – 4:20 #"John Darmy" – 3:10 (music by , lyrics by Joost Visser and Carol van Dyk) #"My Fallen Words" – 2:47 #"Healer" – 4:49

Personnel

;Bettie Serveert *Carol van Dyk –

vocal The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound production i ...

(all tracks),

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

(1,3-8,10,11),

marimba The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...

(2),

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

(2,4), hammond (11) *Peter Visser – guitar (1-3,5-9,11),

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

(1,2,5),

backing vocal A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are used ...

(1), organ (2,9), marimba (2,11), piano (5,8,10),

vibraphone The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist,' ...

(11) *Herman Bunskoeke – bass (1-3,5-11), backing vocal (1), keyboard (2,8), piano (11) *Reinier Veldman –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

(1-3,5-11), octopad (2,5,11) ;Additional personnel *Buni Lenski –

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

(2,3,10) *Simon Lenski –

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

(2,3,10) *Pascal Deweze – piano (6), backing vocal (6,8) *Allan Muller – backing vocal (6), synthesizer (8) *Bart Vincent – backing vocal (7,9) *

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– organ (1),

tambourine The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though ...

(1,9,11),

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(2,9),

conga The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest). ...

s (2,11),

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(4), hammond (7), piano (8), marimba (11), producer, mixing, mastering *Sytze Gardenier-

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References

{{Authority control Bettie Serveert albums 2000 albums Parasol Records albums Albums produced by John Parish