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- Record Label: Virgin EMI
- Release Date: Nov 18, 2016
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- Summary: The compilation of the British synth-pop group's work features unreleased demos and edits, with the super deluxe version including another disc of unreleased early versions of songs plus a DVD that includes appearances on the BBC.
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- Record Label: Virgin EMI
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Dance-Rock, Post-Punk, New Wave
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MagnetFeb 14, 2017Smashing. [No. 159, p.57]
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Dec 12, 2016Despite the fact that the future caught up with them, this collection shows that there remains nowt so queer as The Human League.
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Dec 12, 2016The later efforts are more like dry runs, and we might have benefitted more from a mixture of these and some key remixes from over the years, but really, what’s not to like?
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UncutDec 12, 2016Sprawled across 40 years of high and lows, A Very British Synthesizer Group is inevitably bumpy in quality, but still rich in pleasant surprises, and shot through with the bloody-minded punk genius that defines so much music from the People's Republic Of South Yorkshire. [Jan 2017, p.38]
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Dec 12, 2016It is a representative introduction to the work of a top-tier synth-pop group.
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Feb 15, 2017Some of the music on A Very British Synthesiser Group is as good as pop music gets, but as a package, you would be better off spending your money elsewhere.