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

Goodbyehouse became one of 2025’s runaway underground successes thanks to that emotional openness – as well as the duo’s 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. “We get sick now after three weeks!” Strange says, laughing. “It was a lot easier when we were twentysomething.” They need to get used to it: 2026 includes an extensive Danish tour before a handful of shows with Paramore’s Hayley Williams and stops at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound and Denmark’s Roskilde festival.

Snuggle is neither member’s 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 Søren Holm, died by suicide in 2021. They released their final album in 2022, after Holm’s death. “I was kind of at my lowest – I didn’t know what my music should sound like, if I should even make music,” he says. “That had been my life.”

Thuesen has been a member of the indie-rock trio Baby in Vain since she was a teenager. The band “had this whole run where we had the hype, and we were signed to [big indie label] Partisan Records and toured a lot.” But the band “started to crumble” 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.

Strange and Thuesen both ended up enrolling in Denmark’s Rhythmic Music Conservatory (RMC), where they met for the first time three years ago – despite both having previously been signed to Escho and having mutual friends. “We 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,” says Thuesen. There was an emotional connection too, says Strange: “Some of the stuff we talked about when we met was having these similar experiences of losing a very good friend in your mid-20s – we were just talking in a very unfiltered way.”

Many of the most hyped musicians of the 2020s – including the pop singer Erika de Casier, Henriette Motzfeldt (half of the electronic duo Smerz) and the experimental producers Astrid Sonne and ML Buch – have studied at the RMC, but Snuggle bristle at the idea that the school is the nexus of a certain scene. “It feels like the school is getting too much credit [for the] wave,” says Thuesen. “It’s more like a coincidence that all these people that are getting attention now went to that school, and I don’t 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.”

Snuggle’s success certainly transcends the sometimes overly highbrow discourse surrounding the Copenhagen scene (now so renowned that it has its own official Spotify playlist). The band recently received a DM on Instagram from a teenage girl in midwest America who said they made her want to pursue music. “It just made me so incredibly happy – when I was younger, I just wanted to go and get out there, feel the success, and [feel] hyped about the hype,” says Thuesen. “Now, it’s about these little things.”