Possibly the best ultra-bleak power electronics/spoken word demonic possession concept album out this year. In less than 20 gory minutes, Brent Landon narrates a doomed tale of demonic abduction in a tiny, effects laden voice buried under an abyss of gurgling, near-collapsing electronic assaults. Landon’s hellish soundscapes recall TG or early SWANS, as all, albeit in unlikely ways, share a penchant for storytelling. These yarns, however, are not spun around a campfire, but rather relayed deep inside a reactor set to meltdown. Landon impresses with a dexterous array of sounds: bottomless lapping forcefields, clanging shrapnel, nonsense industrial drumbeats looped into knots, and on the final track the dust clears for a brief view of a poisoned sky. Landon’s lyrics are portentous and poetic, but his reading lacks risks or urgency. Fortunately his monotonous utterances are low enough in the mix to not hurt things significantly. But with brutal sounds and words, a vocal delivery to match the pain of the electronics and creeping horror of his poetry would have really taken “Transition into a Phantom State” to a delightfully dismal realm. A very good EP but a few curdling moans away from greatness. 7/10 -- Mike Pursley (17 September, 2009)