With the expanded box set edition of The Cranberries‘ debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We, coming out next Friday, guitarist Noel Hogan says that this album — and its even-more-successful follow-up, No Need to Argue — are the sonic template for a new album the band will release next year.

Hogan explains to Billboard that when the band went back to original producer Stephen Street to make what now, tragically, will be their last album with Dolores O’Riordan, they instructed him “to go back to that sound, kind of less complicated, ’cause now’s not the time to be reinventing the wheel.”

Hogan also speaks about O’Riordan’s frame of mind. Before she died in January, he says, “She was fine. People go, ‘Yeah, yeah, you have to say that,’ but she was.” Hogan admits that O’Riordan was “very open” about having “problems in her personal life and mental health problems…but especially when she started writing this album it was all very positive and she couldn’t wait to get into the studio or back on the road again.”

Hogan claims “she didn’t (die) deliberately because she was in great spirits. Her back had come around again. She was feeling good about things. She was psyched about doing the album.” He calls her death “very, very unfair.”

Billboard posted the demo of a previously unheard song “Shine Down” from the Everybody Else Is Doing It box set.