Slaraffenland
We're On Your Side

There’s a peculiar genre of musical racism that’s spurted out of nowhere in recent years, like so much Eyjafjallajökull-an (no idea how Icelandic suff...

Slaraffenland’s name is regularly mentioned alongside fellow Danes Efterklang, with whom they have occasionally joined forces as Slaraffenklang. Not t...

It has been six years since the Danish five piece Slaraffenland released their self-titled first album and they are still producing the same kind of m...

Danes Slaraffenland are not the kind of band that you can just dip into. As this, their third album since their 2002 inception attests, they create t...

There's a great deal of high-quality music currently emanating from the Northern part of Jutland and surrounding islands, commonly known as Denmark. I...

What Sigur Rós are to Iceland, Efterklang have become to Denmark; the critical darlings through whose prism outsider eyes are prone to viewing – and o...

We're On Your Side is Slaraffenland's third album, though you'd be forgiven for having missed the first, which saw only an extremely limited release i...

Hard to admit that We’re on Your Side is a step down for this great band, if only because it’s at least as technically adept and effortlessly listenab...

There’s a tendency to think of joy, especially joy expressed via music, as a kind of mindlessness. Not that stupidity and happiness necessarily ...

"It's only a state of mind," went the tagline for Terry Gilliam's dystopian masterpiece Brazil. "Slaraffenland" is something of a state of mind, too. ...