Data Renaissance

We have come a long way from those formative days in the '80s when bands used to proclaim "no synthesizers!" at the end of their exhaustive thank you lists. Metal's relationship with electronic music is well-documented and definitely doesn't need explaining again here. But you could be forgiven for being thoroughly sick of the sound of synthesizers at this point, such is their ubiquity in both mainstream alternative music and the pop mainstream in general. If you can tolerate a few more vague...