Dolores O’Riordan Is Back

Dolores O’Riordan is back with the release this week of her debut single as a solo artist, the remarkable ‘Ordinary Day’. Inspired by the birth of her third child, it’s the first track to be taken from the eagerly awaited debut solo LP ‘Are You Listening?’ (to be released May 7th). A deftly impressive return to form for the accomplished singer/songwriter, it’s her first new material in 4 years.

Produced by BRIT Award winner Youth - whose previous credits include The Verve, Embrace, Primal Scream, U2 and Paul McCartney – it glistens with melody and is the perfect introduction to the new album. “Ordinary Day is a lovely song… one that doesn’t try too hard,” says Dolores. “Youth certainly brought his own vision to the table and softened it without affecting its integrity or passion.”

“It was something I wrote a long, long time ago that was never recorded because it originally lost its direction. Several years later when recording the album, I was convinced to give it a new spin. We resurrected it.”

Co-produced by Youth, Dan Brodbeck and engineered by Rich Chycki, the eagerly anticipated album is not only a 12-track tour de force, but also a personal reflection. Written and recorded between her homes in Canada and Dublin, it’s punctuated with angular chords and that crystalline voice.

Folk-tinged, electric and deftly powerful, it’s also a relentlessly melodic success. “My time after The Cranberries was a clean slate – no pressure and no contracts,” Dolores enthuses. “It was the first time in my life I was a free agent. I had no inhibitions, which is how I felt when I first started out. That’s all visible here.”

The album ‘Are You Listening?’ is released May 7th, following the single ‘Ordinary Day’, April 30th.

To find out more, visit Doloresoriordan.ie and Myspace.com/doloresoriordan.