October saw the televised debut of BBC Four‘s Synth Britannia, an enthralling and ruminative documentary on the advent of synthesizers in electronic music and their ascent into the pop lexicon of the 1980s. Narrowing its lens upon electronic pioneers such as Wolfgang Flür (Kraftwerk), Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle), and Gary Numan, [...]