Palomine

Bettie Serveert | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 26, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Matador Records
• ASIN: B00000581P
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,844 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #52 in Music > World Music > Europe > Continental Europe > Netherlands

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One the best mood music albums of all time!, October 24, 2001

By 

Sean Marshall (Detroit, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Palomine (Audio CD)

As so many others, "Kids alright" first drew me to this album in the summer of '93. I picked it up used at a local record store and found that it was full of raw, grungy, but not obnoxious sounds of emotion. Palomine is a wonderful example of low tech, hi emotion recording that is so over looked in this day of "bigger and better". This stuff gets in you and stays for a long time. It has such power without being over powering. This album will take you on an emotional "tour de France" through every nook and cranny of your soul. In my opinion, it's Bettie Serveert's most "true-to-themselves" and soul touching album by far. I still rank this virtually unknown album as one of my top 25 records of all time. Being a musician myself, people often ask me who my influences are and they almost never know who I am talking about when I say Bettie Serveert. I listen to palomine all the time to this day, and no matter how long it's been since I last heard this record, I still get that same feeling every time I hear it. It, quite simply, never gets old.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars American Buzz with Dutch Sensibility, July 7, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Palomine (Audio CD)

When you first hear this album, you can't help but notice the restraint practiced by this Dutch group. Can you hear classical training in composition behind the luminous Palomine? Or is it just the Dutch passion for the understated. Palomine teases the edges of "noise" enough to make it interesting while maintaining a harmonic composure that makes it an appealing, colorful recording.

Melodic, yet edgy, Carol van Dijk and the rest of the "groep" are capable of harnessing melody, rhythm and distortion artfully to evoke their message. While the Dutch are not by any means producers or fans of the indie/guitar rock genre, this band stands out in astonishing contrast to the jarring, mindless, techno/house music and American soft pop that dominated Dutch stereos when Palomine hit the stores. Living in the Netherlands at the time, I found myself seeking follow on CDs and was amazed that many Dutch hadn't heard of them.

Personally, Carol van Dijk's vocals strike a chord with me that I can only compare to the first time I heard Natalie Merchant or Liz Phair. Alternatively plaintive, sarcastic, brooding, and seductive, her voice isn't the only strong point in a group I believe is underated.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic, November 24, 1999

By 

Todd Scott (Royal Oak, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Palomine (Audio CD)

The "Kid's Allright" drew me to this CD in the first place and I ended up listening to it almost endlessly one summer. It's moody, dynamic, and powerful. The only thing better is seeing these songs performed live.