Hunter by Becca Mancari

Songwriter Becca Mancari shares her new single “Hunter” and announces her recent signing to Captured Tracks. The hypnotic song, propelled by an airtight drum groove and lacerating guitar line, finds Mancari singing to a ghost from her past, promising, “You’re never gonna track me down / You’re never gonna find me out,” her crystalline voice floating effortlessly above the distorted maelstrom brewing below it. It is a song of defiance, self-assurance, and reclaiming her power. “Hunter” was produced by Zac Farro from Paramore and is taken from a forthcoming album, of which more details will be announced soon. The track is a strong sonic evolution for Mancari delving deeper into her origin story.

Mancari on "Hunter" - "'Hunter' was born from a true story reflecting back on a person from my childhood in church who, later in my life, would send me frequent letters in the mail telling me to 'repent' and that I was a 'nasty woman' for the way I dressed and for the things I sang about. I received one of these letters the morning I planned to go into the studio with Zac Farro, and in that moment I sat down and wrote most of the lyrics, finishing the song in the studio that day. It is a song written from two people's perspectives: one of course being the 'Hunter' figure and the other from me, saying 'you will never stop me.'"

Becca Mancari is a traveler. She's lived everywhere — Staten Island, Florida, Zimbabwe, Virginia, India, Pennsylvania — and she's collected plenty of tales along the way, spinning the sounds and stories of the modern world into songs.