Electro Pop: One Nation Under a Moog
Simon Reynolds, Guardian, The, 10 October 2009
As new BBC4 documentary Synth Britannia shows, the synthesizer first dehumanised then re-humanised British pop, fulfilled the DIY promise of punk, and changed how bands looked forever
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