The chorus in Saburnia’s “Even” keeps returning to the same question: Am I feelin’ you feelin’ the same way? The band repeat it until the line begins to sound less like reassurance and more like doubt. Each time it appears, the voice carries the same uncertainty it had the first time.
Saburnia are led by brothers Cameron and Devin Thistle, musicians who write and produce their own recordings.
“Even,” released in January 2026, follows a guitar-led approach that places the band near the loose, analogue-leaning sound currently associated with artists like Mk.gee and Dijon. Devin Thistle handles much of the instrumentation here, including acoustic guitar, baritone guitar and lap steel, while also mixing the track.
The band keep the arrangement spare. The drums hold a steady groove without much change. Acoustic guitar sits at the centre of the mix while a baritone guitar fills the lower register of the chords. Lap steel slides through with long, bending notes that hang behind the vocal. A saxophone appears briefly in the background, its warm tone widening the sound of the band for a moment before the guitars close back around the vocal.
The vocal stays close to the microphone, delivered quietly and without dramatic shifts, repeating the same lines with a calm insistence that keeps drawing attention back to the question at the centre of the song.
That repetition carries the central idea of the lyrics. The chorus lists the moments in a relationship that most love songs avoid: Love it when you talk back. Love it when you fight. Love it when you laugh. The lines stack up until the list reaches its final image: love a little water in your eyes when it gets like that. The affection here isn’t aimed at harmony. It sits inside the arguments and tension that show how much someone matters.
The influence of the current guitar-soul wave is difficult to ignore. The chord progression and drum groove sit close to territory explored by Mk.gee and Dijon in recent years. At times the resemblance becomes strong enough that the track risks sounding like part of that same movement rather than a step outside it.
What stops the song collapsing into imitation is patience. Saburnia let the groove hold steady while the singer returns to the same line again and again.
Am I feelin’ you feelin’ the same way?
The band never answer it. The question remains in place as the instruments keep moving around it. That uncertainty is the song’s centre, and Saburnia are confident enough to leave it there.
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