snuggle, the Danish duo that includes Andrea Thuesen (Baby In Vain) and Vilhelm Strange (Liss) will release their debut LP debut album Goodbyehouse 0n September 12 via Escho (Elias Rønnenfelt )  Ahead of the album’s arrival, they have shared the new single “Playthings,” which follows the previously released standalones “Marigold,” “Dust,” “Woman Lake,” and “Sun Tan.” “Playthings” puts a bookish, existential spin on the echoes of radio R&B. Steeped in equal doses of humor and dread, the song precedes a string of Europe and UK tour dates with Horse Vision, followed by a run of shows with Mew.

On the new single, snuggle shares: “We made “Playthings” in the final stretch of the album. It’s a fever dream, starting with triangle and ghost sounds. It’s about the strange comfort of going in circles with someone.”

Goodbyehouse emerged during a period of flux and duality: a local café Thuesen worked at for almost a decade closed; the home Strange grew up in was sold; both experiencing heartache- and break; grounding points disappeared, lots of goodbyes, departures. These changes thrust the duo into a bizarre new chapter. “It is a bit of that childhood feeling of having to move and being taken out of something safe and familiar,” Thuesen muses. “You don’t really know what awaits on the other side, so you are a bit excited. But it’s also scary and melancholic, I like that same feeling in music also.”

Except for percussion contributions from Tobias Laust and cello courtesy of Naja Solié, the album is the result of Thuesen and Strange’s isolation, love for jamming and experimentation.Album track “Woman Lake” is a surreal ode to the state of Minnesota, conjuring a rural landscape, down to the mosquito bites, and a brief interpersonal flame.

Andrea Thuesen and Vilhelm Strange met when they were schoolmates at Copenhagens Rhythmic Music Conservatory, bonding over sprawling jam sessions. The self-professed “musical soulmates” lingered in Copenhagen’s underground for years before unveiling snuggle in 2023. Thuesen makes up a third of the trio Baby In Vain, which has rolled out grungey releases since the early 2010s. Strange established his footing producing the left-field boy band Liss. snuggle has become a shelter from life’s storm — oblique arrangements injected with equal doses of existential dread and poetic humor.

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