The Cranberries completed mixing their next album, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, this week. The band's fifth album, their first since 1999's Bury the Hatchet, will be released October 23rd on MCA Records.

Due to frontwoman Dolores O'Riordan's pregnancy (she just gave birth to her second child in January), the group recorded the effort in two sessions, one last fall in Dublin and the other over the last month in a London studio. Stephen Street ( Blur, Morrissey) who produced the band's first two efforts, 1993's Everybody Else is Doing it, So Why Can't We? and 1994's No Need to Argue, returned to the fold to produce the thirteen-track album. The band has chosen "Analyze" as the album's first single, though a release date has not yet been set.

Speaking from London's Townhouse Studios, drummer Fergal Lawler said the band were planning to have some tracks re-mixed for possible B-sides, something they have had success with previously, including the Orb's remix of "Zombie." "It's good to get some re-mixes for clubs," Lawler told Rolling Stone. "It's nice to get it across to a different audience."

JOLIE LASH
(May 17, 2001)