Dust Bunnies

Rolling Stone (5/15/97, p.115) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...singer Carol van Dijk's oddball charm works as foil to the studied perfection of the band....DUST BUNNIES' songs instantly connect..."
Spin (4/97, p.157) - 8 (out of 10) - "...Like the parking-lot loiterers and truck-stop romantics van Dijk sings about, Bettie Serveert aren't clever or extraordinary. But by choosing plain-speak over poetry, they do a first-rate job of conveying how it feels to be second-best."
Melody Maker (3/15/97, p.48) - "...This album is going to be lashed elsewhere for being five years too late,...for their Boston college-rock jangle, for being to f***ing real and sensitive. Don't listen, you NEED this, it's comforting, blue and absolutely life-savingly brilliant."
Q Magazine (4/97, p.128) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...They emerge a warm, charming proposition, and this, their best album yet, soon sounds like a cherished friend."
Entertainment Weekly (3/28/97, p.69) - "...Carol van Dijk's brainy lyrics are elevated into something fetchingly clever while her once-disingenuous vocals turn knowingly coy. First-rate popcraft." - Rating: B
Option (5-6/97, p.94) - "Forever confounding experience with innocence, Bettie Serveert distinguishes itself with its ambivalence....melancholy in its jubilance and content in its despondence..."