The Cranberries Roses

Roses is the heavily anticipated sixth studio album by the iconic Irish rock band The Cranberries. This record is the follow up to their fifth studio album Wake Up And Smell The Coffee which was released in 2001. This album is their first studio release in over a decade and follows their six year hiatus and reunion. The album showcases The Cranberries' musical talent at its best. Beautiful and strong guitar melodies overlap and harmonise with impressive technical drums and brilliant bass lines. These well instrumentalised tunes blend in perfectly with lead singer Dolores O'Riordan's distinctive and somehow haunting vocals emphasising the well written lyrics. Featured on the album is the lead single Show Me The Way a song that quietly builds in to a storming chorus with O'Riordan's singing sounding almost ethereal across the melodic backdrop of heavy guitar. Also featured on the album is the single Tomorrow an upbeat catchy tune with plenty of overlayered guitar with uptempo chord progressions and riffs. Despite making fans wait over a decade for this record Roses proves that it was more than worth the wait showing that The Cranberries have only gotten better with age. Cat Emerson