Love has many faces : a quartet, a ballet, waiting to be danced
Joni Mitchell
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Reviews (5)
AllMusic
2020
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine
2020
"Effectively, this evolution is a biography in the form of archival tapes, and the results are not only historically important, they're absorbing on a sheer musical level".
Gaffa [online]
d. 3. Dec. 2020
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Espen Strunk
d. 3. Dec. 2020
"Nu søsætter Joni Mitchell også sin egen arkivserie, som indledes med dette store bokssæt, dækkende de helt tidlige år grundigt med et rundhåndet udvalg af demoer og liveoptagelser. Materialet her daterer sig til dengang, Mitchell endnu var en purung folkesanger i starten af sine tyvere - stadig i færd med at finde sin stemme som den deciderede mestersangskriver, hun skulle træde i karakter som ... Der er i sagens natur god grund til at glæde sig over, at endnu en af de store, amerikanske sangskrivere har valgt at åbne op for arkiverne".
Rolling stone
d. 29. Oct. 2020
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David Browne
d. 29. Oct. 2020
"Takes us back to Joni Mitchell's young folkie days ... This five-disc set of the iconic artist's very first recordings shows that she always had her own voice".
Weekendavisen
d. 30. Oct. 2020
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Klaus Lynggaard
d. 30. Oct. 2020
"Få besidder hendes originalitet, melodisk, rytmisk og lyrisk. Når hun er bedst, er hun genial, så er det sagt, og jeg har endnu til gode at høre hendes avancerede kompositoriske evne overgået ... ikke færre end 119 sange fordelt på fem cd'er i et bokssæt med tilhørende 40-sider booklet ... Bokssættet indeholder ud over det tidlige folkesangerrepertoire hele 29 af hendes egne kompositioner, som hun aldrig siden vendte tilbage til! Er man fan af kvinden, er The Early Years (1963-1967) altså fuldstændigt umulig at ignorere ... Selv for en indædt Joni Mitchell-fan er bokssættet et maratonprojekt. Tag det i bidder, og lad indtrykkene bundfælde sig, her er musik nok til hele den lange, mørke vinter".
Mojo
2020 December
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Victoria Segal
2020 December
"After years of resistance, Joni opens the vaults: If Mitchell was ever concerned she might give too much away, dilute or dissolve, this collection of radio and TV performances, live sets and home recordings - including 29 previously unreleased tracks - does the opposite, enhancing the listener's wonder at her rapid evolution, shoreline to treetops in under four years. Organised chronologically (partly under advice from Neil Young), the collection stops before her 1968 debut, 'Song To A Seagull'. That she had so many songs - not least "Both Sides", "Now", "Urge for Going", "The Circle Game", even "Conversation" and "Little Green" (...) - that didn't make it onto her first album suggests not only ceative overspill, but also a remarkable clarity and confidence".