SNUGGLE AT STUDENTERHUS ODENSE
snuggle’s sound is both three-dimensional and cottony, concealing a conflicted inner dialogue. Their abundant guitar riffs, melodies, and lyrics graze against each other to shape their distinct world. Members Andrea Thuesen and Vilhelm Strange located instant symbiosis as 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.
snuggle is a social practice rooted in intuition. “music has always been a social practice for me. A way to be together, and create, and have an community around something”. Much of Thuesen and Strange’s output also sparks in domestic moments lounging in bed, improvising on guitar, and watching television, isolation. The project’s name references an intimacy that impacts these albeit moody routines. “One day, Vilhelm just came along and asked, ‘What do you think about “snuggle”?,’” Thuesen reflects. “And in one way or another, it just made perfect sense to me, because we were both kind of cozy like that, when we need protection from crazyness.”
That softness was immediately palpable on snuggle’s debut EP, Calendula, which fused earthy instrumentation, catchy vocals and aqueous studio techniques. Those techniques, a new way of finishing music, on an analog desk with no recalls, informed more than just the fidelty “We found out that at some point in the process, stepping away from the computer made things more exiting in the sense that there was no going back unless you were willing to start over again.”
Goodbyehouse — snuggle’s first full-length for Danish label Escho — 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.” Goodbyehouse sheds a tear for departing youth, then calmly walks through the opening door of adulthood.
Support: Slaughter Beach
Om Slaughter Beach:
Slaughter Beach er en trio, som består af Nikolaj Westi, Mads Emil Aagaard og Hasse Mydtskov. Efter flere års pause vendte bandet tilbage med en EP i 2024, som blev omtalt positivt på udenlandske musikblogs, og som danske Gaffa gav fem stjerner og beskrev som værende “naiv nostalgisk drømmelyd”.
Bandet skriver sange fra grænselandet mellem at føle sig som en forvokset teenager og voksen. Om at forstå sig selv gennem menneskene omkring sig. Om broderskab, blind hengivenhed, håb, rastløshed og apati. Om følelsen af, at tiden står stille, samtidig med at den løber fra en.
Sangene veksler mellem evigt udviklende, kompositoriske rejser til popsange med klare referencer til den amerikanske indiescene.
Slaughter Beach arbejder i øjeblikket på materiale til deres kommende debutalbum.
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Entré: (pre-sale/at the door)
– Students: 100,- DKK / 130,- DKK
– Non-students: 130,- DKK / 160,- DKK
Wardrobe is mandatory. The wardrobe is 25,- DKK (students) and 35,- DKK (non-students).
The doors open an hour before the concert starts.