DOLORES ON SONG WITH U.S. CRITICS.Pop stars The Cranberries' new album may have been panned at home but it's a huge hit with critics in the States. American reviewers are lapping up To The Faithful Departed, hailing it as the best so far from the Limerick Limerick, city, Republic of Ireland Limerick, city (1991 pop. 56,083), seat of Co. Limerick, SW Republic of Ireland, at the head of the Shannon estuary. The city has a port with two docks. band led by singer Dolores Dolores (or Delores) was a common given name (until the 1960s in the USA); it is cognate with the English word "dolorous" (meaning sorrowful) and equivalent in meaning. O'Riordan. Time magazine said it was "superb" while the New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10 welcomed the album as "consistently good with powerful language and beautiful vocals". The plaudits are a far cry from reviews in Ireland and Britain. One Dublin writer described the album as "a dog of a record by a terminally confused pop star". Some British critics roped in U2, Enya and Sinead O'Connor to do an all- round knocking job on Irish music. Pop weekly NME NME Name NME Enemy NME New Musical Express NME Neisseria Meningitidis NME New Molecular Entities (US FDA New Drug Approval reports) NME Network Management Ethernet NME New Music Express gave the album just one point out of 10. Sales look set to prove them wrong as the album went into the US charts at number four this week and is number one in eight countries. It sold 2.5 million copies in the first 10 days of its release. None of which is likely to bother the band. They are in Japan and have not seen either the reviews or the sales figures sales figures npl → cifras fpl de ventas . |
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