The June – Green Fields And Rain – Rainbow Quartz – RQTZ170 - ***

On their second album, The June re-animate familiar sixties sounds via the conduits of the Eighties American Paisley underground bands and the Nineties Britpop groups that also assimilated them.
Despite the trio hailing from Parma, Italy, Christian Ravanetti perfectly replicates Liam Gallagher's nasally elongations of John Lennon's flattened Liverpool vowels.
The June's vintage Rickenbackers sound as authentic as their accents are geographically accurate, and the Strawberry Fields keyboard steal on I'm Looking Out is brazen. Green Fields And Rain might be a third generation photocopy, but the colours still flicker.

(30/1/11)