The album features other experimental techniques, including using a triangle to guide guitar playing and extensive use of Mellotron and synthesizers from new member Victor Peraino, who replaced Michael "Goodge" Harris early on production.

[4] The sessions began with Dennis Taylor supervising proceedings, but he only recorded two songs with them, being replaced by former Love Sculpture guitarist Dave Edmunds, who according to Brown was "more than keen to work on an experimental project".

[5] Richie Unterberger of Allmusic said that the album has been "most noted in retrospect as one of the first rock records to use a drum machine, which was still quite a novelty back in 1973.

According to journalist Malcolm Dome, one of the things that made Journey "a remarkably extravagant experiment is the fact that all those connected were open to the most outlandish possibilities.

[9] A reviewer for Julian Cope's Head Heritage called the album "drum-machine propelled space-glam" that "positively gushed with transcendent energy and light.

"[9] The album also makes prominent use of the EMS VCS 3 and ARP 2600 synthesisers and Mellotron M400 keyboard, all of which are played by Victor Peraino.

According to Head Heritage, "although electronic, the tone gives it a curiously pagan feel – like the (slightly) speeded up death-march of the damned familiar to many Third ear band tracks.

Everything goes crazy for a second until it gradually settles down into a great motorik groove, and a hugely base riff of warbling notes of moog and bubbling VSC3.

"[9] Brown's vocals on the song refer to Time Captains, "synthesising the rays powering your brain...lone protons [and] cosmos cold socks.

"[4] "Triangles" is a slower piece that has been compared to 1974-era Cluster "twilight stroll", with a "ploddingly simple drum machine groove and toy-town flickering synthesisers and guitars," wobbling through "a number of increasingly intense key changes before lurching to a stop.

[5] Head Heritage, considering it to have predated similar krautrock music, said that, "recorded at the end of 1972, this could easy have come off Ralf and Florian or Zuckerzeit.

"[9] “Conception” crawls into "earshot fantastically, with a deadbeat dole-queue flanged bass,"[9] whilst “Spirit of Joy” is "features that rarest of M400 sounds, the Mellotron Hammond (along with some strings), only distinguishable when Peraino attempts some organ 'chops'.

Buy,"[10] and Head Heritage said the album is "a drum-machine propelled space-glam masterpiece that positively gushed with transcendent energy and light.

Mark Paytress said the album "remains a classic of pioneering electronic rock, up there with Kraftwerk and assorted krautrock trailblazers.

Taken on its own, this opening section could easily be passed off as a lost Cabaret Voltaire or RBE track from a decade later, but this is only one aspect of Journey, and as the name suggests, we are taken on a unique trip that had no obvious precedents at the time.

"[2] He said "it's astonishing to think that Journey was recorded at the same time as Dark Side of the Moon, so much more advanced is it than the more well known work" and commented after the release of the 2010 remaster that "now that this milestone is once more available, maybe it stands a chance of being reassessed not only as Arthur Brown's masterpiece, but also as one of the truly great albums of the seventies.