Video: Slaraffenland - Meet And Greet

This slightly unclassifiable Danish quintet are good to have on your side, like a friend whose support is rock-solid if uneffusive. There's a tendency to think of joy, especially joy expressed via music, as a kind of mindlessness. Not that stupidity and happiness necessarily go together, but that real exultation is accompanied or caused by something that makes you stop thinking, that reflection is antithetical to simple pleasure. Sex, drugs, and (a certain kind of) rock 'n' roll are such a revered trinity precisely because they take you out of you own self for a while,...