In Episode Two of Day Is Night Diaries, we -- Doug Carraway and Akhila Ramnarayan -- talk about “Hello Lenore” (think Victorian tea party, Edgar Allan Poe, attendant guests+ghost, cucumber sandwiches, and big storms brewing), 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 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 Lenore and The Raven.

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

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