The Cranberries release new song in honour of Dolores O’ Riordan. The Cranberries have released a new song All Over Now to mark the first anniversary of Dolores O’ Riordan.

Her bandmates, Noel Hogan, Fergal Lawler and Mike Hogan have said that they took a long time to consider how best to honour their late friend.

Posting on Facebook, they wrote: “This was a very painful process.

“We remembered how Dolores had been so energised by the prospect of making this record and getting back out on the road to play the songs live, and realised that the most meaningful thing to do was to finish the album we had started with her.We felt that this is what she would want. We spoke with Dolores’ family and they agreed.”

You can have a listen ‘All Over Now’ here.

Speaking about the album, Dolores’ mum Eileen said: “I can’t think of a more fitting way to commemorate the first anniversary of Dolores’ passing and to celebrate her life than to announce to the world the release of her final album with the band.”

Work on ‘In The End’ began in May 2017 and later that year the band had written and demoed eleven songs.

According to Noel, Dolores was “so energized by the prospect of making this record and to getting back out on the road to play the songs live”.

Speaking about the band finishing the album, Noel said: “We knew this had to be one of the, if not the, best Cranberries album that we could possibly do. The worry was that we would destroy the legacy of the band by making an album that wasn’t up to standard.”

“Once we had gone through all the demos that Dolores and I had worked on and decided that we had such a strong album we knew it would be the right thing and the best way that we could honour Dolores.”

Stephen Street, who produced the album, spent four weeks with the band in a London studio building around Dolores’ vocals.

“It was a bitter sweet time,” admits Noel. “The joy of recording new tracks is always exciting and one of the best parts of being in a band. At the end of every day when we’d laid down our parts there was a sense of sadness, knowing that Dolores wouldn’t be in that evening to work on that day’s track.”