Bury the Hatchet by The Cranberries

Bury the Hatchet, the Cranberries' fourth studio album, came out on Island in April 1999, the first thing the Limerick band had released since going on hiatus in September 1996. Dolores O'Riordan had spent the break recovering from stress-related illness and becoming a mother to her first child, Taylor, and that new life seeps straight into songs like "Animal Instinct" and "You and Me".

Noel Hogan's guitars, Mike Hogan's bass and Fergal Lawler's drums give her plenty of room, swinging between chiming, jangly calm and heavier crunch, while O'Riordan's voice leaps and keens like it always did. The subjects run from motherhood and children to divorce and child abuse. "Promises" is the storm cloud of the set, all crashing guitars. By early June it had shipped 500,000 copies in the US and gone Gold.

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