Album Review: The Cranberries – In The End

The Cranberries,”In The End” (BMG)- The untimely death of Cranberries’ vocalist Dolores O’Riordan just over a year ago deprived the Irish rock scene of one of its most distinctive and compelling talents and left behind a collection of recently penned demos which had been intended to form the basis of the Limerick  band’s next album. Her three surviving bandmates made the decision to complete her musical epitaph before they finally called it a day and the finished product serves as a poignant celebration of Dolores’ life and work, showcasing heartfelt and strangely prophetic ditties such as “All Over Now,” “Summer Song” and  “In The End” itself.