Liz Horsman: Heavy High

Liz Horsman has one thing in common with Bob Dylan. Both believe songs should be a "snapshot of a moment"

Liz Horsman has one thing in common with Bob Dylan. Both believe songs should be a "snapshot of a moment". This is how she describes the songs on her debut - and, yes, from its "looks-like-a-near-suicide-in-a-bath" cover art through the angst-ridden lyrics of songs like This Is Blue and post-grunge guitar chords pushing forward Grey Ways and the acerbic Girlie She, this is Morrissette territory. With influences like Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley and Ben Harper this may not be where Liz Horsman started out, but it's where she's at in 1999. She's most effective when she sits back on a song, as in Living, deftly capturing her expressed desire to balance the "poetic and the poignant". More substance, more real than Morrissette, by far.