From Copenhagen, Denmark recommended if you like Alex G, Dodo, Astrid Sone After playing Primavera and Roskilde in 2026 summer Under the hands of Andrea Thuesen and Wilhelm Stange, the band name Snuggle is more than a little ironic. The debut album Goodbyehouse, released on the cult-approved label Escho, stems from a period when the pair's life was in a state of great upheaval and comfort was in short supply. “We had fun – you can hear a little irony from the album – and we went through a difficult time, an existential crisis, and you can also hear that”, says Thuesen in a video call from Copenhagen.
Goodbyehouse became one of the underground hits of 2025 thanks to its emotional openness – as well as the duo's clever blend of Dido-esque balladry, shoegaze haze, and minimalist pop. As we speak, Thuesen and Stange have just returned home from their final tour of the year, a short tour that left both of them sick. “We’re getting sick three weeks after!”, Stange says with a laugh. “It was much easier when we were twenty-two.” They will have to get used to it: 2026 will include a Danish tour, several shows with Hayley Williams, Paramore, and stops at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound and Denmark’s Roskilde Festival.
Snuggle is neither member’s first band. In his early twenties, Stange played in the acclaimed electronic soul band Liss, signed to XL Recordings. The quartet disbanded after lead singer Søren Holm, 2021, committed suicide. They released their final album after Holm’s death in 2022. “I was kind of low – I didn’t know what kind of music should sound like, whether I should make music or not”, says he. “It was my life.”
Thuesen is a member of indie-rock trio Baby in Vain since he was a teenager. The band “had all this buzz, we were signed [to major indie label] Partisan Records and we were touring a lot.” But the band “started breaking up” after Covid. He found himself at a crossroads, like Stange, deciding whether to continue with music as band members moved on to other projects.
Stange and Thuesen both signed up for the Danish Rhythmic Music Conservatory (RMC), where they first met three years ago – despite both being previously signed to Escho and having mutual friends. “We had these classes where we had to play music for each other and it was this instant thing where we really liked what each other was doing, so we decided to try and jam.” says Thuesen. There was also an emotional connection, says Stange: “Some of the things we were talking about when we met, having this similar experience of losing a really good friend in our twenties – we were just talking really unfiltered.”
The most high-profile musicians of the 2020s – including pop singer Erika de Casier, Henriette Motzfeldt (half of electronic duo Smerz) and experimental producers Astrid Sone and ML Buch – studied at RMC, but Snuggle push back against the idea that the school is a hub for a certain scene. “It’s like the school gets a lot of credit for the wave”, says Thuesen. “It’s more like a coincidence that all these people who are getting attention now went to this school and I really don’t like when you contextualise art too much with institutions. I think it takes away from art what it can do and what it can be.”
Snuggle’s success is definitely beyond the sometimes overly highbrow discourse around the Copenhagen scene (now so famous it has its own official Spotify playlist). The band recently got a DM on Instagram from a teenage girl from the Midwest US who said they wanted to continue making music. “It just made me so happy – when I was younger, I wanted to go and perform, feel successful and [feel] excited by the buzz”, says Thuesen. “Now, it’s these little things.”
