• Record Label: Mute
  • Release Date: Dec 17, 2013
Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. Dec 16, 2013
    90
    For serious listeners not content with the original vinyl and/or CD pressings, this excellent and thorough package is essential.
  2. Dec 16, 2013
    80
    There’s much to pore over here, including two full live sets from 1984 and the experimental patchwork collection Gasoline In Your Eye. Get ready to have your earth shaken.
  3. Magnet
    Dec 4, 2013
    80
    Luckily for us, low points are few and less about quality control than redundancy. [No. 104, p.52]
  4. Dec 4, 2013
    80
    If the continuing relevance of this material was never seriously in doubt, in resurrecting a swath of the Cabs material that had unfairly languished in obscurity for far too long, Mute have done a service in recovering an important transitional period for the group and for dance music in general.
  5. 75
    Minor gripes aside 8385 is a fascinating glimpse at what artists in the 80’s thought the future would sound like; this is the point where post punk electronica such as New York’s Suicide ends, and proto industrial-goth artists such of Ministry and Nitzer Ebb begin.

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