Before her sudden death on 15 January 2018, singer Dolores O’Riordan recorded vocals for a new album with her band, The Cranberries. According to the members of the band, the album was in the works since last year and will be released “early next year”. Alongside the new album, which will be first in six years, the band will also reissue their debut release Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? on its 25th anniversary. The reissue will feature newly remastered tracks and previously unreleased material.
Dolores O’Riordan died at the age of 46 in London. Although the cause of death was not revealed to the public, police confirmed that it’s not being treated as suspicious.
You can read the full statement of the band about Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? reissue and release of The Cranberries new album below.
“This month marks the 25th anniversary of the release of our debut album “Everybody Else is doing it so why can’t we”. In recent weeks we have had a number of media enquiries asking if we were planning anything to commemorate this milestone.
We can confirm that since last summer the band had been working with Universal Music on the creation of a very special 25th anniversary edition of the album, a newly re mastered version with previously unreleased material of ours as well as other bonus material from the era of our debut album. We had planned to release this special edition this month to coincide with the 25th anniversary. However, given Dolores’ passing in January we put the entire project on hold.
In recent weeks we revisited this. After much consideration we have decided to finish what we started. We thought about it and decided that as this is something that we started as a band, with Dolores, we should push ahead and finish it. So that’s the plan, to finish the project and get the special 25th anniversary edition album out later this year.
We will also be completing the recording of a new studio album as previously announced, which we also started last year and for which Dolores had already recorded the vocals. All going well we hope to have this new album finished and out early next year.
We will keep you all up to date as things progress.
Noel, Mike and Ferg”
