℗ 2017 A Decca Records Release; Cat-O-Log Records under exclusive license to Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc
| Released | October 6, 2017 |
| Duration | 33m 31s |
| Record Label | Verve Decca Crossover |
| Genre | Folk |
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1.1
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Blackness of the Night
Yusuf / Cat Stevens |
3:01 | |||
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1.2
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See What Love Did to Me
Yusuf / Cat Stevens |
3:44 | |||
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1.3
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The Laughing Apple
Yusuf / Cat Stevens |
3:05 | |||
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1.4
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Olive Hill
Yusuf / Cat Stevens |
2:47 | |||
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1.5
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Grandsons
Yusuf / Cat Stevens |
3:04 | |||
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1.6
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Mighty Peace
Yusuf / Cat Stevens |
2:21 | |||
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1.7
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Mary and the Little Lamb
Yusuf / Cat Stevens |
3:35 | |||
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1.8
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You Can Do (Whatever)!
Yusuf / Cat Stevens |
3:11 | |||
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1.9
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Northern Wind (Death of Billy the Kid)
Yusuf / Cat Stevens |
2:42 | |||
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1.10
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Don't Blame Them
Yusuf / Cat Stevens |
3:39 | |||
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1.11
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I'm So Sleepy
Yusuf / Cat Stevens |
2:22 |
Grammy Award nomination – Best Folk Album, 2017
"..with Alun Davies’ sparkling guitars and Paul Samwell-Smith’s crisp production, the 11 songs sound like a cohesive set of tunes that always belonged together, and carry through themes of so much of Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ music: love and the joy of childhood."
- Sandy Cohen, The Washington Post
"The record succeeds where it has to. It will satisfy music historians who will appreciate how well Yusuf and his old team have recreated their classic sound. Everyone else can simply marvel at the singer's continuing, uncanny ability to translate life's journey into three minutes of infectious melody."
- Russ Coffey, The Arts Desk
Yuself Islam, more commonly known as 1970s folk rock phenom Cat Stevens presents The Laughing Apple, his fifteenth solo album. The friendly singalong sound his fans have come to love is at full-force with this release that unearths and revisits many of the songs from his earliest years as an artist.
44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Verve Decca Crossover Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | 0.00 -0.04 to 0.00 | -13.35 -16.14 to -11.06 | -10.92 -13.60 to -8.80 | 8 6 to 10 | |
| 1 | Blackness of the Night | 0.00 | -11.06 | -8.8 | 6 |
| 2 | See What Love Did to Me | 0.00 | -11.78 | -9.5 | 7 |
| 3 | The Laughing Apple | 0.00 | -13.19 | -10.4 | 8 |
| 4 | Olive Hill | 0.00 | -13.63 | -11.5 | 9 |
| 5 | Grandsons | 0.00 | -14.36 | -12.0 | 8 |
| 6 | Mighty Peace | -0.04 | -16.14 | -13.6 | 10 |
| 7 | Mary and the Little Lamb | 0.00 | -11.30 | -9.0 | 6 |
| 8 | You Can Do (Whatever)! | 0.00 | -12.72 | -9.7 | 7 |
| 9 | Northern Wind (Death of Billy the Kid) | 0.00 | -13.32 | -10.9 | 7 |
| 10 | Don't Blame Them | 0.00 | -13.55 | -11.5 | 8 |
| 11 | I'm So Sleepy | 0.00 | -15.79 | -13.2 | 9 |