{"id":656003,"date":"2025-12-26T14:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T14:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/656003\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T14:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T14:11:18","slug":"we-bonded-over-losing-very-good-friends-in-our-mid-20s-the-candid-shoegazey-dream-pop-of-snuggle-indie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/656003\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We bonded over losing very good friends in our mid-20s\u2019: the candid, shoegazey dream-pop of Snuggle | Indie"},"content":{"rendered":"

From <\/strong>Copenhagen, Denmark
Recommended if you like <\/strong>Alex G, Dido, Astrid Sonne
Up next<\/strong> Playing Primavera and Roskilde in summer 2026<\/p>\n

In the hands of Andrea Thuesen and Vilhelm Strange, the band name Snuggle feels more than a little ironic. The Danish duo\u2019s debut album Goodbyehouse, released on the cultishly adored label Escho, derives from a period when the pair\u2019s lives were in a state of major upheaval, and comfort was in short supply. \u201cWe had fun \u2013 you can hear humour a bit on the album \u2013 and we went through some tough times, existential crisis, and you can hear that too,\u201d says Theusen over a video call from her home in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

Goodbyehouse became one of 2025\u2019s runaway underground successes thanks to that emotional openness \u2013 as well as the duo\u2019s canny blend of Dido-esque balladry, shoegaze haze and minimalist pop. When we speak, Thuesen and Strange have just returned home from their final tour dates of the year, a brief run that left them both ailing. \u201cWe get sick now after three weeks!\u201d Strange says, laughing. \u201cIt was a lot easier when we were twentysomething.\u201d They need to get used to it: 2026 includes an extensive Danish tour before a handful of shows with Paramore\u2019s Hayley Williams and stops at Barcelona\u2019s Primavera Sound and Denmark\u2019s Roskilde festival.<\/p>\n

Snuggle is neither member\u2019s first band. In his early 20s, Strange played in the acclaimed electronic soul band Liss, who were signed to XL Recordings. The four-piece broke up after the lead singer S\u00f8ren Holm, died by suicide in 2021. They released their final album in 2022, after Holm\u2019s death. \u201cI was kind of at my lowest \u2013 I didn\u2019t know what my music should sound like, if I should even make music,\u201d he says. \u201cThat had been my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Thuesen has been a member of the indie-rock trio Baby in Vain since she was a teenager. The band \u201chad this whole run where we had the hype, and we were signed to [big indie label] Partisan Records and toured a lot.\u201d But the band \u201cstarted to crumble\u201d after Covid. She found herself at a crossroads, deciding, like Strange, whether to continue with music as her bandmates started to drift to other projects.<\/p>\n

Strange and Thuesen both ended up enrolling in Denmark\u2019s Rhythmic Music Conservatory (RMC), where they met for the first time three years ago \u2013 despite both having previously been signed to Escho and having mutual friends. \u201cWe had these classes where we had to play music for each other, and it was an instant thing where we really liked what each other was doing, so we decided to try and jam,\u201d says Thuesen. There was an emotional connection too, says Strange: \u201cSome of the stuff we talked about when we met was having these similar experiences of losing a very good friend in your mid-20s \u2013 we were just talking in a very unfiltered way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many of the most hyped musicians of the 2020s \u2013 including the pop singer Erika de Casier, Henriette Motzfeldt (half of the electronic duo Smerz) and the experimental producers Astrid Sonne and ML Buch \u2013 have studied at the RMC, but Snuggle bristle at the idea that the school is the nexus<\/a> of a certain scene. \u201cIt feels like the school is getting too much credit [for the] wave,\u201d says Thuesen. \u201cIt\u2019s more like a coincidence that all these people that are getting attention now went to that school, and I don\u2019t really like when you put the art too much in context with institutions. I think it takes away from what art can be and can do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Snuggle\u2019s success certainly transcends the sometimes overly highbrow discourse surrounding the Copenhagen scene (now so renowned that it has its own official Spotify playlist<\/a>). The band recently received a DM on Instagram from a teenage girl in midwest America who said they made her want to pursue music. \u201cIt just made me so incredibly happy \u2013 when I was younger, I just wanted to go and get out there, feel the success, and [feel] hyped about the hype,\u201d says Thuesen. \u201cNow, it\u2019s about these little things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Copenhagen, DenmarkRecommended if you like Alex G, Dido, Astrid SonneUp next Playing Primavera and Roskilde in summer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-656003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115786277659510767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}