The Plateau Phase was the first album released by post-punk

Post-punk

Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...

 band Crispy Ambulance

Crispy Ambulance

Crispy Ambulance were an English rock band, formed in Manchester, United Kingdom in late 1977 by Alan Hempsall , Keith Darbyshire , Gary Madeley and Robert Davenport...

. It was released in 1982 and was a departure to the sound of the earlier singles which was considered to be closer to the sound of post-punk

Post-punk

Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...

 contemporaries Joy Division

Joy Division

Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band primarily consisted of Ian Curtis , Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris .Joy Division rapidly evolved from their initial punk rock influences...

. It reached number 21 on the UK Indie Charts by the months of May and April of 1982..
It was also received with harsh criticism, one of them was this review made by Mat Snow in 1980 for the NME

NME

The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

 magazine:

"This is one of the most pretentious, turgid and tedious LPs I've ever heard. Slavish imitation of Joy Division doth not good music make. All the trade-marks are there -relentless inverted drumming, ominous bass lines, dramatic flanged guitar, bleak synth washes and a lone desperate voice. But whereas Joy Division were sincere and inspired in their depiction of obsession, loss and desolation, Crispy Ambulance are portentous, inane and very, very boring.".

Original Track Listing

1. Are You Ready? (5:49)
2. Travel Time (3:51)
3. The Force And The Wisdom (4:02)
4. The Wind Season (5:29)
5. Death From Above (3:28)
6. We Move Through The Plateau Phase (5:50)
7. Bardo Plane (3:32)
8. Chill (4:47)
9. Federation (3:44)
10. Simon's Ghost (3:42)

1999 Remaster Track Listing

• The 1999 remaster included the "Live on a Hot August Night
  Live on a Hot August Night
  "Live on a Hot August Night" was Crispy Ambulance's third release and the second release made on Factory Records . It was produced by the legendary producer, Martin Hannett and even though the title suggests the single was recorded live, it was recorded in a Studio....
  
  " single and the "Sexus" A-Side.

1. Are You Ready? (5:49)
2. Travel Time (3:51)
3. The Force And The Wisdom (4:02)
4. The Wind Season (5:29)
5. Death From Above (3:28)
6. We Move Through The Plateau Phase (5:50)
7. Bardo Plane (3:32)
8. Chill (4:47)
9. Federation (3:44)
10. Simon's Ghost (3:42)
11. The Presence (13:03)
12. Concorde Square (9:08)
13. Sexus (6:11)