The fizzing guitar riffs
The fizzing guitar riffs, cart wheeling rhythms, and effortless melodies of title track and imminent single Fire Inside’ is redolent of The Yardbirds and The Zombies as it twists into an instant Keys classic. While People Meet People’ is an addictive, hollering foot stomping garage-rock groove that shows the sheer diversity of this new long player. The acid tinged desert fuzz of Eyes of the World’ brings to mind the classic work of Can. While the sumptuous California sun soaked melodies and twanging guitars of Valley Sun’ and Chemistry’ shows that the Keys are right up there with the Super Furry Animals and Gorkys Zygotic Mynci as purveyors of high quality Welsh guitar pop.Sex and Drugs and Roll and Roll tells the story of Ian Dury Andy Serkis, lead singer of the Blockheads who, severely disabled by polio as a boy, defied the odds to become one of Britain’s most original and influential singer-songwriters Artist, actor, the Godfather of punk, husband, lover and errant father, Ian Dury was the man who put the phrase Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll into the English language.