Plateau Phase

ESSENTIAL! 70 minute CD includes digital remaster 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. The three bonus tracks comprise The Presence, Concorde Square and Sexus, all being the full-length maxi single versions. Artwork remodeled by Julien Potter. Full sleeve notes. "17 years on TPP sounds like what it probably always was: urgent, postmodernist psychedelia with less debt to Joy Division’s music than to the universal abstract existential tension that comes with being young" (Uncut, 12/1999); "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" (NME, 1.2000); "Mixes driving rock, gritty new wave and odd atmospheric stuff" (Option, 1990).