"Black or white, these precocious knob-twiddlers all had a freakadelic, proggy mindset: they dug synths for the 'far out, man' noises they generated, so they let rip long, noodling solos or oozed out abstract dronescapes. None stood a chance of troubling the hit parade. In some ways the crucial word in synth-pop isn't 'synth' but 'pop'. The British groups who took over the charts at the dawn of the 80s were catchy and concise. Here they followed the lead of Kraftwerk, who were not only the first group to make a whole conceptual package/weltanschauung out of the electronic age, but were sublime tunesmiths."
Simon Reynolds in The Guardian revisits the rise of the synthesizer.
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