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In mid-2002, The Cranberries expressed their intention to record a new album after the "Best of" Tour, in a different manner. The wish to "create a new sound" and "be more experimental" was expressed in numerous interviews and band's messages on their former cranberries.ie website. "We also have been discussing our next record a lot lately and everyone is of the opinion that if we record in the normal way then it's going to be very un-exciting and stale so we have decided that Dolores and Noel will go into the studio […] and play around with some ideas […]. We want to do something that really challenges us and push ourselves into unchartered territory," told drummer Fergal Lawler in October 2002. For the previous albums' recording sessions, the band normally went into studio with the finished songs.

Valentine Mini
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Valentine's Mini Sessions with
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15 minute mini sessions in
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2011 Valentines Mini Sessions
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Valentines Mini Sessions- San
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Valentine Mini Sessions… just
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Mini-Sessions – Valentine's
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The Cranberries opted for a more experimental sound with electronic elements. "I had an idea to take the songs in a different direction. […] For a long while I'd been listening to people like Beck and Moby and wondering how to incorporate the electronic side of things into my own writing. We'd done the guitar-drums line-up on five albums and it was time to introduce something else," recalled guitarist Noel Hogan, talking about the 2003 Cranberries recording session and his work for the Mono Band album.