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Cranberries Display Lighter Side On New Record (November 18, 1998)

While the Cranberries are looking forward to performing at a special concert
for this year's Nobel Peace Prize winners in Oslo, Norway in December, the
Irish band is also prepping to release its first new album since 1996's "To
the Faithful Departed" early next year.

The first single from the new Cranberries' album is titled "Promises," and
as frontwoman Dolores O'Riordan and drummer Fergal Lawler told the MTV Radio
Network, fans can expect a quirkier, more upbeat sound than the group's
previous efforts.

"There's a lot of bizarre material on it," O'Riordan said, "There's a lot of
strange songs. Like in the early days, when the band started, we used to
have and write more funny, freaky songs. But by the third album, I think we
were too much in the limelight, and we felt too freaked out, so the writing
got a little bit sensible there for a while. More serious. Now it's sort of
silly again, with a sense of humor and a little bit of piss-taking and that
kind of thing."

"The album sounds happy," Lawler added, "which is very unusual for us. It's
a quite happy album."

As we previously reported, the Cranberries headed to France to work with
producer Benedict Fenner on the band's new album, which is due in stores in
February 1999.

Source: MTV.COM.