Day Is Night Diaries: Episode Two | Hello Lenore

Think spooky Victorian tea party, Edgar Allan Poe, attendant guests plus ghost, cucumber sandwiches, and big storms brewing. In Episode Two of Day Is Night Diaries, we,

Doug Carraway

and

Akhila Ramnarayan

of Starcracker, talk about “Hello Lenore,” the ninth track on our recent album Day Is Night, reflecting on the song’s inspiration, writing, arrangement, and production.

If you’d like to check out the song before or after listening to this episode, here’s a link.

Artists mentioned in Episode Two include Jacob Collier, Joanna Newsom, Madison Cunningham, and Sting. And, of course, the song wouldn’t exist without Poe’s poems The Raven and Lenore.

(Illustration by Henry Sandham in an 1885 edition of the poem. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.)

In Episode One, we talked about our inspiration and creative process for "Question," the first track on the record.

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Happy listening!