Day o goodbye song1/12/2023 ![]() The music of the album touches on many themes - abuse, love and expectations - but to Hogan and Lawler, the most important part of the project is that it represents the new beginning O'Riordan wanted for herself. Lyrically, you don't hear much of O'Riordan, but her vocals are so powerful, it feels like she's present throughout each song. After five months of work, the resulting album, In The End, is 11 songs of her legacy. The group also agreed that if they ever felt uncomfortable about making the album, they would stop production. "So you had the emotions that were there: Very confused, 'Should I be doing this, should I not?' Every day you go in, you put on your headphones and there's Dolores, singing at you." "It wasn't that long after Dolores had passed away," he explains. Hogan says, in a sense, they were used to O'Riordan not being in the studio when they recorded - "Dolores hated hanging around the studio once we worked on our parts" - but, of course, this time was different. "We spoke to her family and said, 'Look, how do you feel about us finishing the album?' And they were really supportive," Lawler says. As Hogan remembers, they finally had the courage to start listening to them again in late February and, with her family's permission, started recording in April. (Officials ruled O'Riordan's cause of death to be accidental drowning due to alcohol intoxication.) But after a period of mourning, the remaining band members remembered they still had O'Riordan's demos. ![]() Hogan says O'Riordan's apparent stability is what made her death even more tragic and devastating. That's what she kept saying, 'I have so much to say, I just need the music to put it to.' " "She's kind of found a way to cope with the mental health thing. "All of that was kind of behind her," Hogan says. According to Cranberries member Noel Hogan, he and O'Riordan started emailing album ideas in June 2017.ĭavid Wolff-Patrick/Redferns/Getty Images The Cranberries' In The End is due out on Friday.ĭolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries performs at L'Olympia May 2017 in Paris. ![]() ![]() Now, O'Riordan's bandmates have decided to complete that album, In The End - the last album the band will release - in her memory. O'Riordan died suddenly in January 2018 at 46 years old and left behind the vocal tracks to what was intended to be the band's latest album. Between her measured vocal power, her honest, vulnerable songwriting and her Irish accent peaking through every syllable sung, O'Riordan helped The Cranberries stand out. The Cranberries, made up of O'Riordan on lead vocal, guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan and Fergal Lawler on drums, created an intoxicating juxtaposition of grunge and alternative pop, with O'Riordan's lilting lyrics searing through right in. Rock fans fell in love with The Cranberries in the early '90s, thanks, in large part, to the haunting, Celtic-inspired voice of the Irish rock band's lead singer, Dolores O'Riordan. A year after lead singer Dolores O'Riordan died, the remaining members of The Cranberries, Mike Hogan, Noel Hogan and Fergal Lawler, honor her with the band's last album, In The End.
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