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The world almost didn't get another Joni Mitchell album after she announced her retirement following 2002's TRAVELOGUE. Whatever her reasons for changing her mind five years down the line, the sheer inspiration behind SHINE is obvious. Her first album of new material in nine years, SHINE finds Mitchell adopting a more intimate approach (especially in contrast to the massive orchestrations of TRAVELOGUE), handling many of the instrumental duties herself. In fact, it's her unconventional approach to both acoustic and electronic instruments that gives the album much of its singular charm; unusually organic synthesizer stabs and skittering electronic percussion rub shoulders with oddball guitar tunings and spidery piano lines.
Lyrically, Mitchell melds poetic imagery with sociopolitical themes more seamlessly than she's done in some time, and even revisits one of her earliest songs in this mode, with a perky recasting of her chestnut "Big Yellow Taxi." Listening to the level of artistic urgency apparent on SHINE, it's difficult to imagine Mitchell could have ever really believed she had nothing left to say.
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Photographers: Charles "Chilly Dog: Hope; Clay Stang.
Arranger: Joni Mitchell.
Personnel: Joni Mitchell (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards); Joni Mitchell; James D. Taylor, James Taylor (acoustic guitar); Greg Leisz (pedal steel guitar); Larry Klein (bass guitar); Leigh Allardyce (dancer); Bob Sheppard (soprano saxophone, alto saxophone); Brian Blade (drums); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion).
Recording information: Castle Oaks Studios, Calabasas, CA.
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Entertainment Weekly (p.105) - "Delicate overture 'One Week Last Summer' could be an outtake from 1977's underrated DON JUAN'S RECKLESS DAUGHTER..."
Uncut (p.114) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] stripped-back, more personal album....There's elegiac beauty to these tracks..."
Q (Magazine) (p.74) - Ranked #39 in Q's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2007" -- "[A] musically mellow but lyrically harsh wake-up call..." Joni Mitchell Shine Songs Shine Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews The Magic Continues...
This album does shine during each & every moment...
Sincerely hope Joni is back to stay.
Give this album to someone special...
Submitted by faust8577 (Lorraine, Que.)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 3 of 3 found this helpful. The year of the Iguana, Joni returns!
Sorry my English…I’m from Brasil.
Well, “Shine”…finally a new album with new songs from the Queen Joni Mitchell. I love Joni. 5 stars to the album but my favorite album is “Turbulent Indigo” (1994) yet, and the my second favorite is “Taming The Tiger” (1998) yet too (the last studio albums with original songs). I’m a musician and I play guitar so I prefer the songs with acoustic guitar and ‘’Turbulent Indigo” is magic, wonderful, sublime, with a lot of acoustic masterpieces songs. “Shine” can follows the Turbulent’s trails and Tiger too but…is more modest, less pretentious, more ‘light’… but is wonderful, sure.
There are 4 ballads with piano: ‘If I Had A Heart’, ‘Strong And Wrong’, ‘Bad Dreams’, and ‘One Week Last Summer’ (a instrumental).1 version from a classic: Big Yellow Taxi (good folk version). 1 good ballad/rock song: ‘Hana’. The soft, intense, reflexive and beautiful song ‘Shine’.
There are yet a great and beautiful ballad with acoustic guitar: ‘If’.
Well….but my favorites are ’This Place’ and ‘Night Of The Iguana’. In my opinion these 2 songs makes the album “Shine”. Don’t think twice if you like songs from ‘Turbulent Indigo’, the music ‘This Place’ remembers a lot of that songs. Is beautiful, wonderful and ultra folk!
And the other masterpiece ‘Night Of The Iguana’ is a powerful song, a truth masterpiece! This song is a mix of original rhythms and chords like just Joni can makes. Is amazing and is the best of the best!
Well, Joni is God to me…I love you Joni, and thank you so much for “Shine”and for the songs ‘Night Of The Iguana’ and ‘This Place’. The best to you, Joni…always!
Submitted by sonofthepioneers1967 (Sorocaba, SP, Brasil) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Stark, moody and dramatic. Perfect!
This was my first introduction to Joni Mitchell. Mind you, I had no idea what I was getting into, but I was pleased at the strong songwriting and the amazing atmospheres that she had created specifically for this album. It is hard to take a look at the music and break it down, because if you take one part out, it all falls apart. Albeit the overly political statements and general bashing at what us fellow humans have done to the world initially turned me off, I still liked what I heard. Then I found out that she was a really strong songwriter from the sixties, so I was like, "well, no wonder! This is right up her alley!" This whole album feels like a master at the genre returning to her craft. And she weaves a tighter spell than Shelob in her lair outside Cirith Ungol. Give this a listen, and draw your own conclusions. It is the only way you could ever come up with a good analysis of this music.
Submitted by Galen (Anchorage, Alaska)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No This CD is Absolutely Stunning
Joni has done it again....The music, the lyrics, and her amazing voice are all perfectly blended to make this album one of her best. The entire CD is mesmerizing and I cannot stop listening to it. Her words are so powerful and appropriate for the current political climate and that voice....brings goosebumps to my skin. The fact that she sings about things that really matter adds to the emotion.
Submitted by Sandra (San Gabriel, CA, USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No All The Stars
What a brilliant return to songwriting Shine is, fierce in content, beautifully recorded with top players. There's no one compares to Joni.
Submitted by cfrobetterdays (Canada)
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