Editing Next (Journey album) (section)

==Reception==
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="allmusic" >{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/next-mw0000312226 |title=Journey - ''Next'' (1977) album review |access-date=2013-06-30 |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |work=[[AllMusic]] |publisher=[[All Media Network]]}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Martin Popoff|Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]''
|rev2Score = 8/10<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]] |location=Burlington, Ontario, Canada |date=October 2003 |page=153 |isbn=978-1894959025}}</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>
}}
Retrospectively, [[AllMusic]] [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] wrote that "without a forceful lead vocalist like [[Steve Perry]], the group lacks focus and a pop sensibility and its attempts at straight-ahead pop/rock suffer considerably as a result."<ref name="allmusic" /> Canadian journalist [[Martin Popoff]] praised the album's variety and the "profusion of good songs", with the musical styles ranging from prog to sophisticated balladry to pop metal.<ref name="martin" />