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Palomine
Studio album by Bettie Serveert
Released	2 November 1992 (1992-11-02)
Studio	Sound Enterprise (Weesp)
Genre	Indie rock indie pop
Length	49:12
Label	Brinkman Guernica Matador
Producer	Bettie Serveert Frans Hagenaars Edwin "Hank" Heath
Bettie Serveert chronology
Palomine (1992) Lamprey (1995)
Singles from Palomine
"Tom Boy" Released: 1992 "Palomine" Released: 1992 "Kid's Allright" Released: 1993

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.

Release

Palomine was released on 2 November 1992 by Brinkman Records in Benelux and by the 4AD subsidiary label Guernica in the United Kingdom. Upon its release, the album charted at number 43 in the Netherlands. In the United States, it was issued by Matador Records on 7 January 1993. Three singles were released from Palomine: "Tom Boy" and "Palomine" in 1992, the second of which reached number 122 on the UK Singles Chart, and "Kid's Allright" in 1993.

On 7 July 2023, Palomine was reissued by Matador for the album's 30th anniversary. The reissue reached a new peak of number 30 in the Netherlands, while also reaching number 177 on the Belgian Flanders albums chart.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
CD Review
Entertainment Weekly	A−
NME	6/10
PopMatters	8/10
Q
Rolling Stone
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
Spin Alternative Record Guide	8/10
Uncut	8/10

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". 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." 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. 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."

Palomine placed at number 15 in The Village Voice's 1993 year-end Pazz & Jop critics' poll. 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".

Track listing

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

Notes

• "Brain-Tag" is omitted from the LP edition of the album. The UK LP edition, released by Guernica, instead included a bonus 7" disc featuring "Brain-Tag" on side one and "Get the Bird" and "Smile" on side two.

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

Bettie Serveert

• Herman Bunskoeke – bass
• Carol van Dijk – guitar, vocals
• Berend Dubbe – drums
• Peter Visser – guitar

Production

• Bettie Serveert – production
• Berend Dubbe – mixing
• Frans Hagenaars – production, mixing
• Edwin "Hank" Heath – production, mixing
• The Masters – mastering

Design

• Diederik van der Donk – photography
• Roel Siebrand – cover design

Charts

References

1. ^ Greer, Jim (December 1992). "Bettie Serveert: Palomine". Spin. Vol. 8, no. 9. pp. 91–93. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
2. ^ Robbins, Ira (22 January 1993). "Palomine". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
3. ^ "Bettie Serveert History 1982–1993" (PDF). bettieserveert.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 May 2023. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
4. ^ Palomine (press advertisement). Guernica. 1992. Archived from the original on 22 May 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
5. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Bettie Serveert – Palomine" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
6. Giles, Jeff (17 May 1993). "A Dutch Treat". Newsweek. p. 70.
7. ^ "Singles". bettieserveert.com. p. 1. Archived from the original on 5 May 2001. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
8. "Chart Log UK: Darren B – David Byrne". Zobbel.de. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
9. "Bettie Serveert → Palomine Reissue". Matador Records. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
10. ^ "Ultratop.be – Bettie Serveert – Palomine" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
11. Raggett, Ned. "Palomine – Bettie Serveert". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
12. ^ Zacharek, Stephanie (May 1993). "Bettie Serveert: Palomine". CD Review. Vol. 9, no. 9. p. 64.
13. Dalton, Stephen (7 November 1992). "Bettie Serveert: Palomine". NME. p. 37.
14. Lee, Christopher J. (22 August 2023). "Bettie Serveert Shine Again on the Re-released 'Palomine'". PopMatters. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
15. ^ Aston, Martin (January 1993). "Bettie Serveert: Palomine". Q. No. 76. p. 78.
16. Ali, Lorraine (29 April 1993). "Bettie Serveert: Palomine". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 8 March 2008. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
17. Harris, Keith (2004). "Bettie Serveert". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 67. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
18. McDonnell, Evelyn (1995). "Bettie Serveert". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. pp. 37–38. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
19. Wallace, Wyndham (July 2023). "Bettie Serveert: Palomine". Uncut. No. 314. pp. 43–44.
20. Pareles, Jon (1 May 1993). "Pop and Jazz in Review". The New York Times. p. 1.18. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
21. "The 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll". The Village Voice. 1 March 1994. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
22. Christgau, Robert (2000). "Bettie Serveert: Palomine". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 25. ISBN 0-312-24560-2. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
23. Brain-Tag (liner notes). Bettie Serveert. Guernica. 1992. GU 3 S.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
24. Palomine (liner notes). Bettie Serveert. Brinkman Records. 1992. BRCD 004.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

External links

• Palomine at Discogs (list of releases)

• 1992 debut albums
• Bettie Serveert albums
• 4AD albums
• Matador Records albums