Yusuf / Cat Stevens Announces New Album ‘The Laughing Apple’

Yusuf / Cat Stevens, one of the most influential singer-songwriters of all time, will release his highly anticipated new album, The Laughing Apple, on September 15th under his Cat-O-Log Records logo exclusively through Decca Records, the same label that launched his career 50 years ago. The incredible singer-songwriter unveiled a lyric video for his new song, See What Love Did to Me, which you can watch below!

The Laughing Apple follows the common ‘60s template of combining newly-written songs with a number of covers – except that all the covers are from Yusuf's 1967 catalogue. The Laughing Apple celebrates some of his earliest material, presenting the songs as he has always wished they had been recorded. Yusuf explains,

There are some I always wanted to hear differently,. Many of my earlier recordings were overcooked with big band arrangements. They crowded the song out a lot of times.

Yusuf produced The Laughing Apple with Paul Samwell-Smith, the original producer behind Yusuf's landmark recordings, including 1970’s Tea for the Tillerman, which contained the classics ‘Wild World’ and ‘Father and Son’.