10 July 2009

Free MP3 Download from ex-Cranberries lead singer Dolores O'Riordan

By News Desk

Dolores O'Riordan, songstress and critically acclaimed voice of The Cranberries, will be giving away a free track ahead of the release of her second solo album, No Baggage, which will be released on August 24th.

The free track titled "Stupid", will be available for download starting from Monday, 13 July until Monday, 27 July at www.No-Baggage.net.

First bursting onto the music scene as lead singer of The Cranberries, O'Riordan has been following a solo path since 2003. Following the enormous success of The Cranberries (they sold 40 million albums worldwide), O'Riordan has since garnered much praise from fans and critics alike for her soulful and sweeping vocal style. This vocal soundscape is follwed through stunningly with her latest album No Baggage and sees O'Riordan exploring many emotive subjects.

Looking forward and backwards - sometimes simultaneously - is one of the new album's primary themes, as evidenced on tracks such as the quasi-Beatlesque "Fly Through" and its yearning for unambiguous solutions, the bittersweet nostalgia of the insinuatingly catchy "It's You", and the blunt, seemingly self-critical "Stupid". "Skeleton", meanwhile, takes its title not just from the physical structure at each person's core but also from the all-too-common "skeletons in the closet" that we all have.

"It's at times very confessional and dealing with my true emotions," she says about her latest album. "Everyone, through their experiences or their background, has had terrible moments where they think they can't handle it. With this record I'm trying to show that, no matter how bad things may seem, it's not really that bad in the big picture."

To find out more about O'Riordan since her departure from The Cranberries check her out here or at www.myspace.com/doloresoriordan.