Two incredibly rare gifts tell the story and success of The Cranberries: The first innately belonged to the band and the other was given to them by the music industry.
It’s a familiar music industry trope by now, the once-promising band that got swallowed by marketplace demands and label pressures. The halls of popular music history are lined with such stories, wallpapered over one another in thick layers of creative frustration and forced decisions. But somehow The Cranberries never wrestled with such powers. Instead, they were always free to follow the muse as they saw fit—a present from the industry to chase the band’s own gift
