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There's a palpable feeling of intimacy throughout every moment of Radiator, the debut album from Philadelphia's Sadurn. The band's spare-yet-satisfying instrumentation, diary-like lyrics, and graceful vocal harmonies bring you in extraordinarily close, breaking down any walls between artist and listener to offer fleeting glimpses of life's most internal moments-as well as one of the most compelling debut records in some time.Sadurn started as the solo project of Genevieve DeGroot, who picked up the guitar in 2015 in an effort to delve deeper into songwriting. InchI came to the game really late relative to most people,Inch DeGroot explains, InchI didn't start playing guitar and really writing songs until after college. I'd always been a singer but I just felt like I needed an instrument to really write songs on.Inch It wasn't long until DeGroot was creating the music that would eventually become Sadurn. InchWhen you reach into a new creative outlet, it's really exciting because there's just so much there. I didn't have this idea that I was going to go and become a musician, but I was learning new chord progressions and writing, and I'd moved to Philly and was surrounded by other songwriters.Inch One of these fellow musicians was guitarist Jon Cox, who joined up with DeGroot to form an early incarnation of Sadurn. The two started playing DIY shows in the city and released several homemade, charmingly lo-fi EPs, then in early 2020, a chance experience kicked off the next phase of Sadurn. InchMy friend Amelia [Swain] was just learning to play drums, we started playing some of my songs together and it just made sense, we both had this feeling that we had to do this.Inch The group was soon joined by Tabitha Ahnert who had recently taken up bass, and Sadurn's new lineup was complete.With new members and an evolving sound, the beginning of 2020 was meant to be the four-piece'
