JOURNEY

Far and away the best Kingdom Come album, Journey's unique sound was born out of adversity - without a drummer when they came to record the album, the band decided to use the then-brand new drum machine technology to provide the backing beat instead. Whilst drum machines would eventually fall out of disfavour due to their misuse during the 1980s, here the heartless, robotic drum sound provides a context for the cold, bleak synthesiser passages and the generally "spaced out" tone of the album.

From the drum machine sputtering into life at the start of Time Captives to the very end, this is space rock for astronauts cryogenically frozen on million-year missions into the loneliest parts of space, an album which defines a cool, sleek sound which the rest of the musical world wouldn't catch up with for years with the likes of Gary Numan and his cyberpunk vision of new wave. A startlingly good space rock album - no wonder Arthur Brown's pals in Hawkwind play Time Captives on stage occasionally (sometimes with Arthur himself singing with them).