Don’t look for Noel Hogan, co-founder of the Cranberries, to be producing any other music this year. The decision to take a step back from his production and solo work wasn’t an easy one to make, but he felt he just couldn’t juggle the demands of both sides of his career.

“There really just isn’t enough time to do everything,” Hogan said. “The Cranberries really is a giant beast of a thing. Next year, I will go back on the production side of it, but trying to do both things just made me tired. I wasn’t feeling 100 percent about either thing by about Christmas.”