Listen to Sadurn’s Yearning New Single, “Golden Arm”

Philadelphia folk-rock quartet Sadurn have shared the second single from their forthcoming debut album Radiator, coming May 6 on Run For Cover Records. “Golden Arm” follows last month’s “Snake,” one of our favorite songs of February.

Where “Snake” was anthemic and upbeat, “Golden Arm” is more serene, centering bandleader Genevieve DeGroot’s intimate vocals and guitar. They yearn for a connection that seems just out of reach, singing over sparing strums and percussion, “I wish I understood a hundred times / The gnawing in my heart / I wanna touch you on your golden arm.” Slide guitar streaks across the song like dusk’s last rays of sunlight, and at times, DeGroot vocalizes wordlessly, as if at a loss to wrap their arms around a feeling so big.

“I wrote this song at the same time as ‘snake,’ while doing a work exchange on a homestead in North Carolina. It kind of all came out at once, which feels like this lucky occasion when you’re writing songs. I didn’t think much of it in its initial form, it felt like more of a poem than a story,“ DeGroot recalls in a statement. “But playing it with the band for the first time, and then later adding the synth and the slide guitar and coming up with the harmonies when we made the recordings, all those layers really brought it into a different special realm.”