The Asylum albums (1972-1975)

"After the bittersweet success of the intensely personal 'Blue', Joni Mitchell headed somewhere only she could go".

"The fêting of the Mitchell oeuvre continues apace with this boxset of the four albums that marked the singer's post-'Blue' ship-jump from Reprise to Asylum Records in 1972 ... This period encompassed both Mitchell's greatest commercial success and a shift in musical style, away from her early folk sound to explore jazz, pop and self-production. To listen to these albums afresh, and as a quartet, is to hear the great flourishing of a musical mind".