Ahead of an upcoming reissue of their debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, the Cranberries' bandmembers paid tribute to their late lead singer, Dolores O'Riordan.
The album, which was released in 1993, became an huge hit, selling six million copies worldwide.
Now, the album will be reissued with a deluxe edition featuring bonus content, including Spanish versions of singles Dreams and Linger, expanded linear notes, as well as new stereo mixes from the album's producer, Stephen Street.
It will also include cover versions of the Linger and Dreams from Mexican artists, BRATTY and Anasof.
Paying tribute to Dolores O'Riordan, who passed away in 2018 aged 46, The Cranberries' guitarist, Noel Hogan said: "The rest of us were happy to hang out in the background, but Dolores really embraced stardom".
He continued: "Everybody talked about how at our early gigs she’d stare at the floor or the ceiling because she was nervous, but she very quickly learned how to fill the stage and work a crowd, no matter how big it was".
"Dolores had a wildness and an attitude - 'This is who I am, take it or leave it!’ - which people loved".
On the band's instant success, Hogan added: "We come from a small town in Ireland where things like that didn’t happen, so it was fairytale material".
"Flying to L.A. to make a video and Michael Stipe visiting the set; sell-out gigs; limos collecting us from the hotel… we just soaked it all up".
Speaking about the album, drummer Fergal Lawler praised Stephen Street for "capturing 'the Cranberries sound'".
"It seems like it wasn't so long ago because we all have vivid memories of that wonderful time", he said. "We went through a few false starts before we finally got to begin recording with Stephen Street in a cozy little studio, Windmill Lane 2, just off Stephen's Green in Dublin. We knew Steve was going to do a great job of capturing 'The Cranberries sound".
Back in August, Fergal Lawler admitted that listening to old studio recordings featuring O'Riordan was "hard".
This happened after the band had announced plans to release an extended 40 track of the band's 1994 album, No Need To Argue.
"Dolores is speaking in-between takes. And it was hard", Lawler said. "There’s a lot of fond memories from that time. But I maybe didn’t expect that to be as difficult as it was".
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