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Sounds astoundingly like an album from his '70s heyday.
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MojoSongs that any liberal-minded Cat Stevens fan will adore. [Dec 2006, p.120]
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Forty-four minutes of welcome surprise.
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SpinYusuf's supple folk tunes predictably take a more spiritual route, yet largely avoid cosmic corn. [Dec 2006, p.104]
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Entertainment WeeklyThe folky arrangements, melancholic singing, and romantic worldview of his early work are intact. [17 Nov 2006, p.127]
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Yusuf hasn't missed a beat, as this is still the same sound he made famous on 70s staple "Tea for the Tillerman" and later perfected on "Teaser and the Firecat", and while it's certainly not as impactful, I'm comfortable saying that "An Other Cup" comes pretty close.
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The bullying production threatens to obliterate what’s good here: A half-dozen gentle seeker’s songs with meditative acoustic textures and lyrics advocating reasonableness among humankind, which was always Cat Stevens’s domain.
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Can the dedicated Muslim now known as Yusuf Islam, for that matter, recapture the welcoming seeker's voice he plied so well in nonsectarian hymns such as "Morning Has Broken"? The answer gently conveyed here is yes, despite a few zealous missteps.
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These new tunes are lovely, thoughtful and gentle, though they don't quite match his best songs.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 41 out of 49
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Mixed: 1 out of 49
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Negative: 7 out of 49
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Apr 20, 2011
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swatijrJul 9, 2007
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catsfanJul 5, 2007