Editing Evolution (Journey album) (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Album reviews
|rev1 =  [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/evolution-mw0000650338 |title=Journey Evolution review |access-date=July 1, 2013 |last=Franck |first=John |work=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Martin Popoff|Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]''
|rev2Score = 7/10<ref name="martin">{{cite book |last=Popoff |first=Martin |author-link=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 1: The Seventies |publisher=[[Collector's Guide Publishing]] |date=October 2003 |page=154 |isbn=978-1-894959-02-5}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev3score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=383}}</ref>
}}
''[[Record World]]'' said that the single "Too Late" "takes the rock ballad to new limits with a call & response hookline and [[Neal Schon]]'s dashing guitar break."<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Record World|date=December 15, 1979|accessdate=2023-02-11|title=Hits of the Week|page=1|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/70s/79/RW-1979-12-15.pdf}}</ref> The magazine called "Just the Same Way" a "hard but slick rocker."<ref name=rw>{{cite magazine|magazine=Record World|date=March 10, 1979|accessdate=2023-02-12|title=Hits of the Week|page=1|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/70s/79/RW-1979-03-10.pdf}}</ref>

''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' concluded that "all the songs here could well have originated at the same session as the numbers on the previous album, and that suggests stagnation."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Niester |first1=Alan |title=Evolution Journey |work=The Globe and Mail |date=28 Apr 1979 |page=F10}}</ref>