U2 – October (Vinyl) Tori Amos Release Date: 1 October 2013

Release Date: 1 October 2013

Pulsing underneath is an otherworldly ten-piece band

switches from sweet pop to wry ballads to a kind of alt-rock rhumba with disarming ease

transforming what at first seems like a collection of bridges into fully realized songs

U2 – October (Vinyl) Tori Amos Release Date: 1 October 2013U2 burst onto the scene with 1980s punky album Boy. It immediately established the group as a distinctive band embodying elements of new wave and punk, but sounded different from many other groups of the era. It was inevitable that October, the follow up to Boy would suffer 'difficult second album' syndrome, and October suffers too, for being followed by the monolithic album War, a project that helped launch U2 into the mainstream. Its a shame that