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- Artist(s): Cat Stevens
- Summary: The 15th full-length release for the British singer-songwriter was produced by Paul Samwell-Smith and features guitarist Alun Davie, who both worked on some of the artist's 1970s albums released under the Cat Stevens name.
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- Record Label: Verve
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Soft Rock
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Sep 18, 2017Throughout, there’s a disarming warmth and thoughtfulness, making for a pleasantly surprising late-career highlight.
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Sep 18, 2017The Laughing Apple can in some ways be viewed as a compromise, as Yusuf makes an album that will resonate with old Cat Stevens fans, but there's never a moment where he seems less than sincere and committed, and this merging of past and present makes for Yusuf's most satisfying album since his return to popular music in 2006.
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Sep 19, 2017Yusuf’s vocals are a bit more gruff than in days gone by, but his whimsical tone maintains the fanciful and philosophical lilt once so essential to that early, engaging style.
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Sep 18, 2017The Laughing Apple isn’t a diluted version of the music Yusuf has been releasing over the past decade; embedded in its pop craftsmanship are new songwriting challenges, Eastern sounds, and scriptural themes that don’t mask themselves. It’s just the version that allows him to be as bold as that smiling, little apple found in the title track. And the cat doesn’t fall far from the apple.
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UncutSep 22, 2017Not unpleasant, but not likely to persuade the previously unpersuaded. [Nov 2017, p.39]
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MojoSep 18, 2017New material like See What Love Did To Me sits well alongside these [four songs from 1967's New Masters album]. [Oct 2017, p.91]
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Sep 18, 2017Most of the album’s tracks also date from an earlier era, four of them retreads of songs originally recorded for his 1967 flop album New Masters. Sadly, they haven’t matured well.
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Sep 30, 2017
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