U2 – October (Vinyl) Tori Amos Enrique El Cobrador

Enrique El Cobrador

Hailed as the new vanguard of indie rock following the breakout success of 2016’s Puberty 2

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

the visual artist Kristi Sword

saxophonist Satoshi Nakamura and American guitarist Adrian Belew who’d played with David Bowie

U2 – October (Vinyl) Tori Amos Enrique El CobradorU2 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