Editing In Search of Space (section)

==Critical reaction==
''[[Melody Maker]]'' reviewed the album in the context of [[Krautrock|contemporary German acts]], feeling that "their instrumental playing" did not reach the same heights but that "they yield precedence to no-one in their creative use of electronics."<ref>[http://www.kadu.demon.co.uk/pages/hawkinspace.html Melody Maker] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061003015822/http://www.kadu.demon.co.uk/pages/hawkinspace.html |date=3 October 2006 }} – album review, 23 October 1971</ref> [[Beat Instrumental]] assessed the album as "excellent", saying that the "music alternates between spaced out imagery and hard rock" as well as commenting that this is the start of the space trip leading to the "[[Space Ritual|Space Opera]]".<ref>[http://www.starfarer.net/clippings8.html Beat Instrumental issue 104, December 1971] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315235649/http://www.starfarer.net/clippings8.html |date=15 March 2012 }} – "In Search of Space" album review</ref>

In the US, [[Lester Bangs]] in ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' favourably appraised the album in the context of other musical works concerned with space, going on to describe the music as "monotone jammings with hypnotic rhythms and solos unravelling off into... well, space. The synthesizers warble, woof and scream and gurgle like barfing computers, the drums pound, and the singers chant Unknown Tongue rebops."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071002011956/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/hawkwind/albums/album/156638/review/5942439/in_search_of_space Rolling Stone 111] – 22 June 1972</ref> [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] described the music as "forcefully compelling, electronic and repetitive" and the band "nearly brings to fruition its claim of being a truly 'mind-expanding' rock group"<ref>[http://www.starfarer.net/clippings8.html Billboard, 1972] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315235649/http://www.starfarer.net/clippings8.html |date=15 March 2012 }} – "In Search of Space" album review</ref>

In April 2006 it made No. 83 in ''[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]''{{'}}s "The 100 Greatest British Rock Albums", noting that "drummer Terry Ollis and bassist Dave Anderson could hit an awesome groove, allowing the rest of the band to cut loose on their acid-fuelled sonic adventures without fear of losing themselves or their listeners."<ref>[http://www.starfarer.net/clippings15.html Classic Rock, April 2006] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314101532/http://www.starfarer.net/clippings15.html |date=14 March 2012 }} – The 100 Greatest British Rock Albums</ref> In the same issue, [[Porcupine Tree]]'s Steven Wilson placed it at No. 2 in his top 5, adding "it's an extraordinary whirlpool of cosmic sound, the definitive space-rock statement. I love the album's repetitive, almost pagan feel. It dispensed with the idea of soloists and has a real sense of 'otherness'."<ref>[http://www.starfarer.net/quotation.html Classic Rock, April 2006] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314102111/http://www.starfarer.net/quotation.html |date=14 March 2012 }} – The 100 Greatest British Rock Albums</ref>