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Though Dutch indie rockers Bettie Serveert wouldn't make a big splash on the alt-rock scene until their second album, the band's debut, PALOMINE established the template for their sound. As with much of their other work, PALOMINE is a study in contrasts. It alternates between brashly rocking and quietly reflective, sometimes within the same song. One of the most immediately striking things about the album is just how American these Hollanders sound. Echoes of the Velvet Underground, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, and Sonic Youth abound, as fuzzed-out guitars switch between creating an urgent din or setting an ethereal mood.
Singer Carol van Dyk follows those radical dynamic shifts step for step, cooing coyly on the gentler tracks and delivering a solid vocal punch when things heat up. PALOMINE sometimes falls between the cracks for casual admirers who think Bettie Serveert's career began with the aforementioned sophomore release, LAMPREY, but it's an important initial salvo in the band's distinctive brand of whispering thunder.
Recorded at Sound Enterprise Studio, Weesp, The Netherlands.
Personnel: Carol van Dijk (vocals, guitar); Peter Visser (guitar); Berend Dubbe (drums).
Audio Mixers: Edwin Heath; Frans Hagenaars; Berend Dubbe.
Recording information: Sound Enterprise Studio, Weesp, The Netherlands.
Bettie Serveert: Carol Van Dijk (vocals, guitar); Peter Visser (guitar); Herman Bunskoeke (bass); Berend Dubbe (drums).
Producers: Frans Hagenaars, Bettie Serveert, Edwin Heath.
Rolling Stone (4/29/93, p.61) - 3.5 Stars - Good Plus - "...[Van Dijk's] dubious, overenunciated American accent comes out in funny, warbled mouthfuls, delivered with an edgy but nonchalant Rickie Lee Jones cool.... as untamed and free as pop gets..."
Spin (12/92, p.91) - Highly Recommended - "...one glorious mess of sound...when did indie rock ever sound this mature, this developed?...an auspicious debut..."
Entertainment Weekly (1/22/93, p.57) - "...PALOMINE'S remarkable feat is that its quiet arrangements never undersell the offbeat songs--and turmoil can't shake the music's sturdy foundations..." - Rating: A-
Q (1/93, p.78) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...PALOMINE is produced with a bar band intimacy that amplifies the sparse, roaming spaces at the heart of the music....Carol van Dijk has a vibrant, husky voice, capable of plaintive, precocious passion and gutsy ferverishness..."
Village Voice (3/1/94, p.5) - Ranked #15 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.
NME (Magazine) (11/7/92, p.37) - 6 - Good Palomine Review
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