Nashville artist Becca Mancari has announced the imminent arrival of their third album Left Hand, sharing its uplifting lead single “Over and Over” (feat. Julien Baker). It is the first piece of new music since their remarkable 2020 sophomore record The Greatest Part — which absolutely should be your next stop in your aural exploration of their music. Yet in the wake of its release, they found only an emotionally and mentally taxing crucible: one that forced a lucid confrontation with family illness and an increasingly unsustainable dependency on alcohol.
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In “Over and Over,” Mancari emerges from that reckoning vividly transformed and reinvigorated. Part of that is owed to the singer/songwriter’s “life-giving” experience of taking the helm in producing the songs on Left Hand themselves. In their tender hands, the album’s first offering arrives as this melodically buoyant locution of one of its thematic threads.
“I wanted to write a queer pop song that has meat on its bones,” Mancari explained. It’s a song that revels nostalgically in the enlivening, intimate, and somewhat reckless qualities of adolescence. “We were invincible,” they coo before earnestly questioning: “Do you remember that feeling?” Their passionately forthright lyricism drifts in on this gleeful indie-pop that’s made all the more euphoric by the rubbery twang of guitars that crisscross behind galvanizing vocals.
But “Over and Over” isn’t about peering bittersweetly back at untouchable memories through the rearview. “There is something to the feeling / Head hanging out of the window,” Mancari declares breathlessly in the song’s chorus. “Being ok that we don’t know / We can have it like we used to.” Joined by the indelible Julien Baker — her voice tracing the edges of Mancari’s with such radiance — the song gushes with undimmable conviction and hope. Holding fast to this distantly glimmering belief that we as people can indeed recapture or reignite a feeling.
The music video for the single “Over and Over,” directed by Min Soo Park, unfolds in the same spirit as the song. Capturing a night of intimacy and celebratory communion with friends that sees Mancari and company losing themselves in another soon-to-be pined-for memory. Yet it does so with the self-same joy and unquenchable optimism that more memories will be made; that life can be renewed and one doesn’t need to morosely mine the untouchable past for fragments of happiness.
Left Hand the new album from Becca Mancari is out on Aug. 25, pre-order it here.
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Becca Mancari tour
09/10 – Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall*
09/12 – Kansas City, MO – The Truman*
09/13 – St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall*
09/19 – Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel*
09/20 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle*
09/22 – Charlotte, NC – The Underground*
09/23 – Charlottesville, VA – Jefferson Theater*
09/24 – Washington, DC – The Howard*
*supporting Joy Oladokun
Words: Steven Ward
Watch the music video for “Over And Over” (feat. Julien Baker) the new single from Becca Mancari below!
