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CD: LTMCD 2337
RELEASED: 2002
LABEL: LTM
01. Are You Ready?
02. Travel Time
03. The Force And The Wisdom
04. Wind Season, The
05. Death From Above
06. We Move Through The Plateau
07. Bardo Plane
08. Chill
09. Federation
10. Simon's Ghost
11. The Presence (12" version)
12. Concorde Square (12" version)
13. Sexus (12" version)
70 minute digital remastered CD of this classic 1982 studio album by the cult Manchester band, originally released on Factory Benelux Records. Rightly regarded as one of the brightest jewels in the Factory crown. Three bonus tracks comprise "The Presence", "Concorde Square" and "Sexus", all being the full-length maxi single versions. Artwork remodelled by Julien Potter. The enhanced reissue of their only studio album for Factory Benelux, 1982's The Plateau Phase, reveals a curious, questing, depressed collective powered by relentless bass and drums and thin, jarring guitars, variously echoing Magazine's "The Light Pours Out Of Me" on "Are You Ready?" and establishing a dark-funk template of sorts on the terrific "Bardo Plane". 17 years on TPP sounds like what it probably always was: urgent, postmodernist psychedaelia with less debt to Joy Division?s music than to the universal abstract existential tension that comes with being young. An enthralling enough glimpse at a moment in musical history when the DIY ethos of punk gradually gave way to experiments with electronics and song structures. Crispy Ambulance mixes driving rock, gritty new wave and odd atmospheric stuff.
Influences / Similar Artists:
Joy Division, The Cure, Section 25, Department-S, The Names, Mecano
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