Despite all her success, the relentless pace of life on the road left Mancari little time to grapple with the trauma of her past, nor absorb any new challenges arising in her present. So, in 2019, Mancari decamped to friend and producer Zac Farro's home studio to set about constructing her second album, a record that would balance un?inching self-examination with intoxicating grooves and infectious instrumental hooks. The result is 'The Greatest Part'. Propelled by an airtight drum groove and lacerating guitar line, hypnotic opener 'Hunter' finds Mancari singing to a ghost from her past, her crystalline voice floating effortlessly above the distorted maelstrom brewing below it. Like much of the album, it's a song of defiance and self-assurance that's streaked with loneliness and regret. To that end, earworm 'Lonely Boy' reflects on the ways that fear can hold us back from human connection, while the bittersweet 'First Time' reaches out to a younger self, asking 'Hey, did you find your way out?'.
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