{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = No Baggage | type = studio | artist = Dolores O'Riordan | cover = No Baggage - Dolores O Riordan.jpg | alt = O'Riordan seated on a body of ice | released = {{start date|2009|8|21|df=yes}} | recorded = | studio = EMAC Recording Studios | genre = <!-- Please source genres --> | length = 45:16 | label = * Cooking Vinyl * Rounder | producer = * Dolores O'Riordan * Dan Brodbeck | prev_title = Are You Listening? | prev_year = 2007 | next_title = | next_year = | misc = {{Singles | name = No Baggage | type = studio | single1 = The Journey | single1date = July 2009 | single2 = Switch Off the Moment | single2date = October 2009 }} }} {{Album ratings | MC = 47/100<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/no-baggage/dolores-oriordan|title=No Baggage by Dolores O'Riordan|website=Metacritic|publisher=|accessdate=3 October 2016}}</ref> | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|last=Thomas |first=Stephen |url={{AllMusic|class=album |id=r1601170 |pure_url=yes}} |title=Allmusic review |publisher=AllMusic |date=2009-08-25 |accessdate=2012-08-29}}</ref> | rev2 = Aversion | rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>[http://www.aversion.com/bands/reviews.cfm?review=4177&artist=Dolores%20O'Riordan&title=No%20Baggage]{{dead link|date=August 2012}}</ref> }} '''''No Baggage''''' is the second and final solo studio album by Irish musician Dolores O'Riordan. It was released on 21 August 2009 in Ireland, most of the world on 24 August 2009 and on 25 August 2009 in North America. The first single, "The Journey" was released to radio on 13 July in North America and on 10 August in Europe.
It includes a new version of "Apple of My Eye", a song featured on O'Riordan's debut solo album, ''Are You Listening?''.
On the week beginning 27 August 2009 ''No Baggage'' entered the Irish Albums Chart at number 80.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irma.ie/aucharts.asp |title=>> IRMA << Irish Charts - Singles, Albums & Compilations >> |publisher=Irma.ie |accessdate=2012-03-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210020839/http://www.irma.ie/aucharts.asp |archivedate=10 February 2007 }}</ref> In 2010 it was awarded a silver certification from the Independent Music Companies Association,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.impalamusic.org/arc_static/docum/04-press/2009/PR%20-%2020101004.htm |title=color |website=www.impalamusic.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827010000/http://www.impalamusic.org/arc_static/docum/04-press/2009/PR%20-%2020101004.htm |archive-date=2017-08-27}}</ref> which indicated sales of at least 30,000 copies throughout Europe.
Producer Dan Brodbeck won the 2010 Juno Award for Recording Engineer of the Year for his work on the songs "Apple of My Eye" and "Be Careful" from ''No Baggage''.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/winners-of-the-2010-juno-awards-1.870964 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100421095310/http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2010/04/18/juno-awards-saturday-list.html | archive-date=2010-04-21 | title=Winners of the 2010 Juno Awards | date=18 April 2010 | access-date=2010-04-18 | url-status=live | publisher=CBC News }}</ref> The second single is "Switch Off the Moment". The music video for "The Journey" was filmed in 16 mm, at Howth Beach Pier and Howth Summit, Dublin, Ireland, on 8 May 2009. The music video aired on 29 July 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-former-cranberries-singer-dolores-oriordan-shoots-the-video-for-her-35376507.html|title=Dolores O'Riordan shoots the video for her new single, 'The Journey'|website=alamy.com|date=8 May 2009 |accessdate=13 October 2019}}</ref>
==Critical reception== ''No Baggage'' received mixed or average reviews upon its release, receiving a 47/100 critic score on Metacritic.<ref name="metacritic1">{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/oriordandolores/nobaggage?q=dolores%20o%27riordan |title=No Baggage Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More|author=Zoe|publisher=Meta Critic.|date=15 December 2009|accessdate=2012-03-03}}</ref> Some critics found merit in the record, with ''Sputnikmusic'' noting that it shows O'Riordan "building on old strengths, while broadening her artistic scope farther than it's been in thirteen years".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=32087 |title=Dolores O'Riordan – No Baggage (staff review) |website=Sputnikmusic |date=2009-08-25 |accessdate=2012-03-03}}</ref>
The majority of critics, however, dismissed the record. The ''Boston Globe'' remarked that the album "is undone by a batch of not-so-great songs. [O'Riordan] wallows in more melodrama than might be expected, while trying to be self-consciously profound,"<ref>{{cite news| url=http://archive.boston.com/ae/music/cd_reviews/articles/2009/08/24/dolores_oriordan_no_baggage/ | work=The Boston Globe | title=Dolores O'Riordan, 'No Baggage' | date=24 August 2009}}</ref> while ''Uncut'' magazine simply commented, "It's grisly."<ref name="metacritic1"/>
Sarah Moore from ''PopMatters'' stated that "she gives her yodels a certain sheen, and combined with the background vocals they sort of gloss across the refrains".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/118101-dolores-oriordan-no-baggage-2496143888.html|title=Dolores O'Riordan: No Baggage|last=Moore|first=Sarah|website=PopMatters|date=18 January 2010|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20200330100016/https://www.popmatters.com/118101-dolores-oriordan-no-baggage-2496143888.html|archivedate=30 March 2020|accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album a three-and-a-half-out-of-five-stars, exclaiming that,
{{blockquote|text="Yes, this is instantly recognizable as her music—not just in that voice, but its blend of folk-rock and sighing, spacy rock that splits the difference between U2 and David Gilmour-led Pink Floyd—but ''No Baggage'' is bigger, brighter than ''Are You Listening?'' and as the album starts to hit its stride halfway through, she weaves in increasingly varied instrumentations, sometimes delving into pure worldbeat influence but more often using all these sounds as coloring on crisp, cheerful adult pop".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/no-baggage-mw0000821916|title=Dolores O'Riordan—No Baggage|author=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|website=AllMusic.|date=15 September 2008|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20200330111942/https://www.allmusic.com/album/no-baggage-mw0000821916|archivedate=30 March 2020|accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>}}
==Track listing== Finalized track list as revealed on O'Riordan's official website:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.doloresoriordan.ie/news-all.asp |title=Official website of Dolores O'Riordan |publisher=Doloresoriordan.ie |accessdate=2012-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090831111453/http://www.doloresoriordan.ie/news-all.asp |archivedate=2009-08-31 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Baggage-Dolores-Oriordan/dp/B0026LLC0S |title=No Baggage: Dolores O'riordan: Amazon.co.uk: Music |website=Amazon.co.uk |accessdate=2012-03-03}}</ref>
{{Track listing |all_lyrics = Dolores O'Riordan |all_music = O'Riordan, except tracks 6 and 9, which are by O'Riordan and Dan Brodbeck |total_length= 45:16 |title1 = Switch Off the Moment |length1 = 3:18 |title2 = Skeleton |length2 = 3:24 |title3 = It's You |length3 = 4:11 |title4 = The Journey |length4 = 3:52 |title5 = Stupid |length5 = 4:45 |title6 = Be Careful |length6 = 4:20 |title7 = Apple of My Eye |length7 = 4:47 |note7 = New Version |title8 = Throw Your Arms Around Me |length8 = 4:26 |title9 = Fly Through |length9 = 3:54 |title10 = Lunatic |length10 = 4:28 |title11 = Tranquilizer |length11 = 3:51 }}
{{Track listing |headline = iTunes bonus tracks |total_length= 56:09 |title12 = You Set Me on Fire |length12 = 4:22 |title13 = Track by Track |length13 = 6:31 |note13 = Dolores discusses each of the tracks on the album }}
{{Track listing |headline = US iTunes bonus track |total_length= 48:15 |title12 = Loser |length12 = 2:59 |note12 = New Version }}
==Band members== *Dolores O’Riordan – vocals, piano *Dan Brodbeck – guitar; bass on "The Journey" *Marco Mendoza – bass except on "The Journey" *Denny DeMarchi – piano *Ger Farrell – drums except on "Stupid" *Steve DeMarchi – guitar on "Stupid" *Corey Thompson – drums on "Stupid", percussion on "Throw Your Arms Around Me" *Matt Grady – digeridoo
==Charts== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- ! scope="col"| Chart (2009) ! scope="col"| Peak<br />position |- {{album chart|Flanders|75|artist=Dolores O'Riordan|album=No Baggage|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 June 2020}} |- {{album chart|Wallonia|31|artist=Dolores O'Riordan|album=No Baggage|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 June 2020}} |- {{album chart|France|30|artist=Dolores O'Riordan|album=No Baggage|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 June 2020}} |- {{album chart|Germany|77|id=113057|artist=Dolores O'Riordan|album=No Baggage|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 June 2020}} |- {{album chart|Ireland2|80|artist=Dolores O'Riordan|album=No Baggage|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 June 2020}} |- {{album chart|Italy|6|artist=Dolores O'Riordan|album=No Baggage|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 June 2020}} |- {{album chart|Spain|48|artist=Dolores O'Riordan|album=No Baggage|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 June 2020}} |- {{album chart|Switzerland|25|artist=Dolores O'Riordan|album=No Baggage|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 June 2020}} |}
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