LBeforeDolores O’Riordandied suddenly in January 2018, she shipped a hard drive to the rest of the band containing unfinished vocals for what was meant to be the eighth studio album by the Cranberries.

So with the blessing of the 46-year-old singer’s family, the surviving members of the Irish group — guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan and drummer Fergal Lawler — used those vocal demos to complete what they say will be the Cranberries’ final album, “In the End.”

Listening to the wistful verses and emotionally exhausted sentiments that wind through the songs, you get the sense thatO’Riordantoo had some premonition that it would represent a closing chapter to a remarkable career that started with the group’s unassuming 1992 debut, “Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?”

Thanks to the unpolished vocals and hands-on involvement of producer Stephen Street (who helmed the band’s biggest ’90s hits like “Linger” and “Zombie”), many of the new songs feel like throwbacks to the Cranberries’imperial phase——从“Wak发出嘎嘎的声音e Me When It’s Over” to the sun-streaked “Summer Song.”

Newcomers will still want to seek the earlier albums, where O’Riordan’sidiosyncratic vocal ticsand the band’s jangly guitars soar at full untethered glory. But for devoted fans, “In The End” represents a loving, considered farewell — one that will inspire more than a few tears when O’Riordan sings on the title track, “Ain’t it strange when everything you wanted was nothing that you wanted, in the end?”

THE CRANBERRIES
“IN THE END”
BMG