Across three vinyl LPs, the tech-heavy work of stonily cool singer Philip Oakey and a handful of knob twiddlers, drum machinists and early sequencer artists from the post-punk ’70s onward is presented as a road map tracing the robotic travels of synthesized sound from rigid electronic punk to synth pop and 808 soul, with the … Continue reading Essential New Music: The Human League’s “A Very British Synthesizer Group”