Philly indie rockers Sadurn have announced their second album. The Underworld, the follow-up to 2022’s Radiator, is due out October 16 via Run for Cover. “The underworld is the hard times, but it’s also about getting back,” songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist G DeGroot says. “You go into the underworld so you can find clarity about your own being and come back changed. That’s just my fundamental belief about healing, it’s not about wallowing but you do need to move towards the darkness in order to transform it and get unstuck. It’s how you discover your most important powers.”
“After this relationship ended, it felt like a sacred part of myself didn’t belong to me anymore,” they add. “Writing these songs helped me reconnect with my spirit and confront the hidden belief that I needed something outside of myself to be safe or good or whole. The same belief was perfectly mirrored in my urgency with the band, so somehow it was also necessary for me to face all these obstacles in finishing the record itself in order to get to the other side of this lesson. I had to be forced to put it down, to learn that I could be okay without the relationship, without knowing if my voice would ever heal, or if the project would ever move forward. It was kind of like an allegory–I needed to learn all that, and then I could go back and finish it.”
The first single is warm indie country track “whole thing.” Watch the video below.
