| Palomine | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Bettie Serveert |
| Cover: | Palomine.jpg |
| Studio: | Sound Enterprise (Weesp) |
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| Length: | 49:12 |
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| Next Title: | Lamprey |
| Next Year: | 1995 |
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.
Palomine was released on 2 November 1992 by Brinkman Records in Benelux and by the 4AD subsidiary label Guernica in the United Kingdom.[1] [2] 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.[1] [3] Three singles were released from Palomine: "Tom Boy" and "Palomine" in 1992,[4] the second of which reached number 122 on the UK Singles Chart,[5] and "Kid's Allright" in 1993.[4]
On 7 July 2023, Palomine was reissued by Matador for the album's 30th anniversary.[6] The reissue reached a new peak of number 30 in the Netherlands, while also reaching number 177 on the Belgian Flanders albums chart.
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." Spins 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.[7] 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."[8]
Palomine placed at number 15 in The Village Voices 1993 year-end Pazz & Jop critics' poll.[9] 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".[10]
Notes
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[12]
Bettie Serveert
Production
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