East Village musician
Bierhorst shows promise on this LP of spare but insistent, confident folk-pop. Her voice and some of her songs (such as the fanciful title track) remind in good ways of
Joni Mitchell -- who is undoubtedly one of her influences. But unlike most girls with guitars who ply the
Mitchell path,
Bierhorst has an engaging voice not immediately compromised by such comparison, and her more strident acoustic bashes, such as the two-chord puzzler "At Sunset," show she's got some real punk spunk in her as well. The production is particularly good, making her six-string ring brightly on the more pleasant tunes and giving it a more unforgiving harshness on the rockier numbers. Keep an eye on this one, purveyors of this kind of singer/songwriter pop. ~ Jack Rabid