Editing Adventures in Modern Recording (section)

== Critical reception ==
Reviews of ''Adventures in Modern Recording'' upon release were mixed.<ref name = "MPL">{{cite journal | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210183116/https://books.google.com/books?id=isAJAQAAMAAJ&q=%22on+four+of+the+eight+tracks%29%2C+they+would%22|archive-date=10 February 2021|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=isAJAQAAMAAJ&q=%22on+four+of+the+eight+tracks%29%2C+they+would%22 | title=Reviews | journal=Musician, Player and Listener | year=1982 | issue=39–50 | page=84|access-date=31 December 2013}}</ref><ref name = "Smash Hits"/><ref name = "MorningCall"/> Tim de Lisle of ''[[Smash Hits]]'' praised Horn's production and the first five tracks for having "enough strong tunes, witty ideas and funky noises", but generally found the album "much less than the sum of the parts, and Side Two deteriorates into tedious Yes-style pomposity".<ref name = "Smash Hits">{{cite magazine|last=de Lisle|first=Tim|title=Buggles: Adventures in Modern Recording (Carrere)|magazine=[[Smash Hits]]|date=1 April 1982|page=19}}</ref> A reviewer from ''[[The Morning Call]]'' also made an unflattering Yes comparison towards some of the songs, like "Beatnik"; he wrote that while it has the "melancholic frenzy" of the duo's biggest hit "[[Video Killed The Radio Star]]", it also has the same Yes-style mixture of "pretentious, meaningless lyrics" and "soaring, grandiose harmonics".<ref name = "MorningCall">{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/282652887/|title=Records|work=[[The Morning Call]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210183340/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/282652887/|archive-date=10 February 2021|date=8 May 1982|page=81 |url-access=subscription|access-date=9 February 2021}}</ref> Opined Mike Gardner in ''[[Record Mirror]]'', "Instead of an invigorating glimpse into their world of hi-sci techno wizardry, we get a weedy piece of whimsy."<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Gardner|first=Mike|date=6 March 1982|title=Adventures in Modern Recording|magazine=[[Record Mirror]]|pages=14–15}}</ref>

A ''Record Mirror'' review by Sunie Fletcher of the title track negatively compared it to the "yukky strain of studiedly bouncy, vacuous pop" of "Video Killed the Radio Star".<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Fletcher|first=Sunie|date=16 January 1982|title=Judge for Yourself|magazine=Record Mirror|page=9}}</ref> ''Smash Hits'' published an unfavorable review of "I Am a Camera", written by Fred Dollar.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Dollar|first=Fred|title=Singles|magazine=Smash Hits|date=15 October 1981|page=23}}</ref> However, it also ran [[Martin Fry]]'s review for "On TV", which noted its ahead-of-the-curve production, particularly with its huge drum and clear recording quality.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Fry|first=Martin|date=29 April 1982|title=Singles|magazine=Smash Hits|page=21}}</ref>

Retrospective reviews were far more enthusiastic, noting how ''Adventures in Modern Recording''{{'}}s sound was comparable in quality to music released in later years.<ref name = "Quietus"/><ref>{{cite web|last=Lester|first=Paul|date=18 August 2016|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-outer-limits-how-prog-were-buggles|title=The Outer Limits: How prog were Buggles?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926052545/https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-outer-limits-how-prog-were-buggles|archive-date=26 September 2020|work=[[Prog (magazine)|Prog]]|access-date=10 February 2021}}</ref> [[AllMusic]]'s Jeri Montesan found the sound of it and ''The Age of Plastic'' better than the "unimaginative" pop of the 1990s.<ref name = "AllMusic">{{cite web|author=Montesano, Jeri|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/adventures-in-modern-recording-mw0000373034|title=Adventures in Modern Recording|publisher=AllMusic|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405204929/https://www.allmusic.com/album/adventures-in-modern-recording-mw0000373034|archive-date=5 April 2019|access-date=9 February 2021}}</ref> Roberts, on the other hand, felt that while Horn's project was ambitious, it had some outdated and chintzy-sounding moments.<ref name = "BBC review"/> Stannard called its songwriting "vastly more sophisticated and satisfying" than ''The Age of Plastic'',<ref name = "Quietus"/> while ''[[The Bolton News]]'' journalist Martin Hutchinson highlighted Horn's vocals.<ref name = "Bolton News">{{cite web|last=Hutchinson|first=Martin|date=4 March 2010|url=http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/leisure/boltonmusic/5043147.CD_Review__Buggles___Adventures_In_Modern_Recording/|title=CD Review: Buggles – Adventures in Modern Recording|work=[[The Bolton News]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817142720/http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/leisure/boltonmusic/5043147.CD_Review__Buggles___Adventures_In_Modern_Recording/|archive-date=17 August 2016|access-date=28 April 2013}}</ref>