Bettie Serveert

Bettie Serveert's second album, Lamprey, begins with a song that encompasses nearly all of
the band's strengths and weaknesses. "Keep Sake" starts as if singer Carol van Dijk has
relegated the rest of the group to being her backing band, as she wraps her coyest vocals
around self-referential lyrics. But then the bass and drums kick in with an urgency straight
out of the Crazy Horse songbook, propelled by Peter Visser's spare, repetitive g... More >