Day Is Night Diaries: Podcast by Starcracker

Hello there. It’s been a minute, for which a certain someone entrusted with the task of posting Episode Six of Day Is Night Diaries in September is solely to blame. We won’t say who dropped the ball, but if you’d like a hint, the culprit is one of two members of the indie rock duo Starcracker (preferred pronouns: she/her). Anyhow, better late than never and all that jazz. Or should we say rock? Fo...

Can broken be beautiful? In Episode Five of Day Is Night Diaries, Doug Carraway and Akhila Ramnarayan unpack “Kintsugi,” the sixth song on Starcracker’s first album, a song inspired in theme and form by an ancient Japanese art of ceramic repair. As always, if you’d like to listen to the song “Kintsugi” before tuning into the episode, it's available on all streaming platforms (search for the band S...

In this very special edition of Day Is Night Diaries, we bring you the story of “Bismuth,” the third song on our album Day Is Night . The track is inspired by neurologist-writer Oliver Sacks and his love of the element whose atomic number is 83, the year he did not live to see. We dedicate this episode to the “poet laureate of medicine” and “godfather of neurodiversity” on what would be his 91st b...

A musical slugfest with an unlikely lineup that includes grunge, spectral folk, some oh-so-English poets, punk, classic rock, Greg Kinnear, and the Carnatic-tinged blues? In Episode Three of Day Is Night Diaries , we, Doug Carraway and Akhila Ramnarayan of Starcracker, delve into the creative process for “Stuck Record,” the tenth and last track on our debut album, Day Is Night, which dropped on Ma...

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 af...

Hi there. It’s the eighteenth of April, the perfect day to drop the first episode of Starcracker's first ever podcast, Day Is Night Diaries. Be warned, this is a longish note, one that’s launching the podcast. We promise to keep the ones that follow succinct. But first, introductions. Starcracker is an intercontinental indie music duo comprised of and , friends since 1997 and collaborators since 2...