Ego Likeness - Water To The Dead Mp3

D. Lynch and S. Archer of Ego Likeness

Band Bio:
Ego Likeness is the combined efforts of D. Lynch and S. Archer, and defies easy categorization. As a pair they have explored many different avenues of music, from spoken word, instrumental work, dance music and dark electronica. The underlying idea behind Ego Likeness is art without limits. Archer and Lynch consider Voodoo and Tibetan Buddhism to be a "very important part of their lives and beliefs". - Ego Likeness Website

Reviews:
"The title track is refreshingly powerful in its skittishness, lightly resigned vocals and lashings of guitar, and it’s reassuring to find so many pauses, changes and attention to detail, which also ensure nothing is overtly fussy. Then the album opens up to continually deliver more of the same, but in many different guises, with '16 Miles' being guitar slurry on which slow, tense vocals float, making it nicely dour pop, and 'Above The Soil (Isobel’s version)' is grander, with a sombre mood bashed out on piano." - Mick Mercer

My Two Cents:
Over the years I have become pretty jaded to the typical conventions of the Electro-Goth dance numbers, far too many seem to be cookie-cutter and uninspired. This track however restores my faith that you can have a beat and still maintain a mood. The vocals are the thing here, that raise it from background fodder to something worth listening to outside the clubs. Personally I would be happy to see this track inspire people to break off conversations and rush to their favorite spot on the dancefloor.

Further Reading:
You can find an interview with Ego Likeness at the Legends website and one done by Hardwired that is now hosted on their site.

¶ Sunday, July 18, 2004 |