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Dutch singer/songwriter Isabel van Gelder’s second and latest EP, Lovesick, builds on the promise of her auspicious debut from earlier this year, Minor Details (highlighted by “Die For You” and “Run,” as well as the deceptively charming “My Silly Boy”), presenting her burgeoning talent in even starker relief. Moments of understated, intimate balladry (“Complicated,” “Before I

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“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
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“It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.”
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