"[5] Her original plans to pursue film scoring[3] were changed in 2002 when Patti Austin came to Berklee to recruit background vocalists for an Ella Fitzgerald tribute tour.

[3] Ziman toured with Austin for 18 months,[2] causing her subsequent compositional style to draw heavily from jazz vocalists such as Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.

Ziman met Lucius drummer and fellow student Dan Molad and Esperanza Spalding at a party during their final semester at Berklee, and they began performing together shortly afterward.

[2] Elizabeth wrote all the songs on the album with the exception of the Leonard Cohen cover "Everybody Knows,"[7] and several of the tracks were derived from demos recorded previously in Molad's home studio.

In 2014, Like it Never Happened was released by Thirty Tigers and produced by Dan Molad, Peter Lalish, and Paul Loren with string arrangements by Rob Moose.

[10] On December 8, 2020, Elizabeth and the Catapult announced their fifth studio album sincerely, e on Flood Magazine,[11] as well as sharing an early preview of the first single "pop the placebo".