Customer Reviews

Water to the Dead

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I picked up this album at my CD store, and I expected the normal industrial sound, with the droning male monotone singing. Don't get me wrong, I love industrial for all it is, but it gets monotonous after awhile!

So I started to listen, and behold, it's a woman singing. Amazing! I bought the CD based solely upon that.

I listened to it, and it's amazing. THe first 2 songs are my favorite, Water to the Dead, and 16 Miles. I was very impressed, and now I come here to Amazon, and find they have ANOTHER album out. Which I am going to buy very soon.

*grins*

The first few songs start out with heavy industrial sound, and then they change to more of a sound like, lets see, I would compare them to INKUBUS SUKKUBUS. They have that kind of sound, which I enjoy a lot.

The latter half of the CD are slower songs, with an explosion of Hurricane, which is amazing in itself. But then the excitement dies after that, ending the CD with the eeriely beautiful song, enchanting Stranger.

I would recommend this to anyone who wants a change in the industrial scene, even though, I'm not quite sure I'd classify it as industrial.

Enjoy.

This band kind of reminds me of a baby Collide - a younger and more underground version of that band's gothic and industrial fusion with powerful female vocals and a strong sense of spirituality and mysticism. What makes Ego Likeness stand out is the earnestness of their lyrics and delivery, and the Southern-tinged storytelling theme of the album. While they can be a bit overwrought at times, this music is beautiful, energising, and worth playing in many different settings. I greatly look forward to their next album. My favourite tracks include the title cut, "Mandala", "Hurricane", and "Wolves".

The songs are a delectable mix of rock,celtic,folk,and modern alternative(e.g. Depeche Mode). The singer's voice is powerful-very 80's rock with a healthy amount of vibrato. The lyrics and theme are nothing like anything else I've seen. This album will be wonderful for those who have a keen appreciation for vocal and stylistic prowess, and those who are up for the unexpected.

I dont really know this band that well, but when i was at hot topic i saw that this band was in one of their stores underground metal complilations. I heard a few of the songs from this album and i was blown away, what a great band!

i bought this album when it first came out and it is STILL in fairly constant rotation in my cd player. Steven and Donna did not disappoint old fans from Dragonfly and gained many new ones! Donna's voice is full of emotion on every lyric and is absolutely beautiful. a must for fans of Curve, Collide, and even Massive Attack and Portishead. the rock guitar and trip-hop sounds are meshed perfectly throughout the entire album. you will love this record from first track to last.

Ego Likeness do it good. Real good. Definitely for rockers that like a darker but mellow edge to their music.

Atmospheric, sexy, with both male and female vocals.

Check out this CD, you won't regret it!

It's not quite goth. It's not industrial. It's not solely rock, or trip-hop, but has elements of all. It's not defineable really, but that's not a bad thing.

Dark, but not wholly so, there are stray elements of blues, here, a feel of storytelling and maybe it's just the cover art talking, but the swampy feel of Poppy Z.'s older short stories, and hot summer nights in mysterious places.

'16 Miles' and 'Travelling Son' are my favourite tracks, the rest hard to keep track of as I don't listen when I have the listing handy. The first is where the band shows it's teeth, with some crunchy guitars and a driving rhythm, and the second one of their best, period. Slower, but just as edged, and this is where they shine, when the grit shows.

Going back through vast amounts of music is sometimes the measure of great sounds. When it comes to something that is worthwhile, for instance, you can oftentimes take the years and polish them away, throwing out all the little things thta connect the songs to you until only the music remains. After that happens, you actually "hear" what sleeps beneath.

When it comes to Ego Likeness, you have a crossbred band that sometimes borders on an almost 80s Goth sound, a sometimes mix of KMFDM-like tempos from the 90s that remind me of industrial music at its prime, and sometimes there is an EBM mixture playing in the vastness. This is all playing with the female vocals that truly make the band sound like something very likeable, with the beats that keep drives at bay, sleep in the rearview, and motion in play. This is not always the way things happen, though, because some of it is also driven by male vocals, switching up the sounds.
I truly think it is good stuff.

In Water to the Dead, I like 16 Miles quite a bit because the vocals sound a lot like the Kidney Thieves when they first came out. The music has an interesting taste in a lot of tune, too, like the classical/heavy micture of a piano and a heavy tempo playing in unison in Above the Soil (male vocals here, by the way). The Breach is also a nice sound, with the KMFDM comparison playing in my mind here. The melodic sound of the male/female vocals is nice, too, and makes it flavorful.

There is something that exists in the way music turns on the mind, tunes out the corners of relaity, and allows us to play. Sometimes a song flicks a switch and, for a monment, there is freedom from everything.
That's why I like this - all of this - and why this gets a 4.5 rounded into a 5 star endorsement for this layman's ears.

For an indication of the emotions let loose on this (and their other releases) just take a look at Wolves on YouTube. How Donna holds back her tears near the of the piece says what their music is about. Also, don't let their EP's escape your ears.

Ego Likeness is a good band, and I would recommend this to anyone who likes easy listening, trip hop, soft electronic, or the band Collide.