Old music: Silver Sun – Last Day

The height of Britpop wasn't the best time to launch a band who were in thrall to American rock There's never really a good time to be a British band in audible debt to Cheap Trick. On the rare occasions when powerpop has gained a toehold in Britain – in the period immediately after punk, for example, when it was dressed up as new wave – it has not won its modest success by following the Illinois band's route of adding a metallic finish to a sturdy chassis of guitar-pop classicism. Metal and...

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