After a remix for the new Cruxshadows remix album "Fortress in Flame" as well as upcoming remix work for Black Tape for a Blue Girl and Voltaire, the six-piece band Ego Likeness present some of their own material with "Water to the Dead". The album is divided into two parts: the "In the Water" part, including the first eight tracks, and the "In the Ground" part, featuring the last three songs of the album (the third of which is a traditional southern folk hymn called just like the southern folk band "Wayfaring Stranger". The elegant mixture of gothic, ebm and dark is focused around the vocals of Donna Lynch and Steven Archer, who are the main songwriters. Slow rhythms, nice beats, piano parts and long guitar chords, synth pads represent the playing ground for these poets of the noir sonic affair (speaking of noir, this album comes out on Dancing Ferret Discs' division called Noir records). All photography in the beautiful album's art work is by Lauren Simonutti.