The career of Daniel Smith, leader and mastermind of Danielson, has a strange irony: his music promotes spiritual healing, oneness and love, but by and large, his audience has been attracted by its joyous perversity. Smith sings exclusively in a high, squeaky voice, and his twee, disorientingly ad-hoc compositions have the feel of a soundtrack to a puppet show or grade-school musical play - perhaps not entirely inappropriate, given Smith's famous on-stage appearances in a ten-foot homemade tre
