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"For Water," yeah right, better titled "For Sex!" This dark and naughty second album by Morgan's Canon talks of death, sad smiles, sexual servility, and raunchy love.

You could say that it was perverted… I think I will. Whatever it is, it is still a well-orchestrated industrial album. The heavily distorted guitars, sulky melodies, operatic richness, and aggressive growls bring Rammstein to mind but Morgan's Canon is more moody and experimental. Each song plays out as if they were testing out a new sound or technique, it was a journey into the meanderings of their dark minds.

Morgan's Canon started out in '97 when singer/poet/pianist/ programmer Otto Zizak joined forces with guitarist Leonardo, The Minister (percussion) and Mistress Silvia (second vocalist and bassist). Otto Z. has been recording music since age 17. He was classically trained in the republic then known as Czechoslovakia. He relocated to New York where he studied poetry writing with Armand Schwerner, piano with Jonathon Hardy, and bass with John Lennon bassist Gary Van Sayoc. He has quite a bit of experience under his belt and also he's a member of another band, Otto's Daughter.

The album starts with a growl on "Monday." The aggressive guitars, chaotic piano, and deeply distressed vocals of Otto are smoothed out by the beautiful contrasting lilt of Mistress Silvia. She has an operatic dark angel voice that brings the song to the height of holiness. She sings a duet with Otto in the song "Vampire Girl" that lends this silky power ballad a Broadway musical quality. "Feed" is an industrial declaration of Otto's sexual fantasies about virgins. "Krime" starts out in a foreign language but the last verse is in English. In the last verse he tells a woman to wear heavy make up, breath like a whore and serve him, I can only imagine what the rest of the song is about.

Needless to say, sex sells and Morgan's Canon has no problem selling themselves. They are becoming well known and sought after in the club circuit around New York and beyond. They truly have an artistic touch to their music, which comes across through the poetic lyrics, variety of sound and texture, plus Morgan's Canon has gothic credibility, they don't sound like poseurs. Original and pleasantly disturbing.