Ex-Thieves instrumentalist Saul Freeman aimed for his own dream-pop aesthetic when he placed an ad in the now defunct music weekly, Melody Maker. He had already worked with David McAlmont, but wanted a new creative outlet. Searching for an ethereal voice similar to the likes of the Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser and Shara Nelson (Massive Attack, Presence), solo artist Nicola Hitchcock ended Freeman's search when answering his request. The two instantly clicked, for Hitchcock also had a debut album under her belt and the two formed Mandalay in the mid-nineties. Incorporating trip-hop loops similar to Portishead and Hitchcock's vocal perfections, the duo earned props throughout the latter part of the decade in their native U.K., specifically with the albums Empathy and Instinct.
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Mandalay

Three, four, three, four ...
I want you now as then
Dont tell me you want to stay
Too much time now has passed
Too too soon nothing to do
I was only thinking I would right
Now and then I need a little sting
I was only trying not to second guess
Why you came but
Since I left you
Im chasing opposites
Things that you do
Pay on my mind till I sets hard I cant
I cant see when you go
I cant see when you go
Silence away, silence with things
No reason why should stay
When you know what to say
To talk me
Talk is cheap
That look of yours
Too too cold
Now the cold
Could you feel ( could you feel )
So ravage and misunderstood
Everything cha, cha, changed
Nothing remains
So consider now
When it was easy
Knowing what you do and what you gave
I was sealing knowing what was to be
My mistake but
Since I left you
Im chasing opposites
Things that you do
Pay on my mind till I sets hard I cant
I cant see when you go
I cant see when you go
Silence away, silence with things
No reason why should stay
When you know what to say
To talk me
That you will never see x6
That will never step on me
A sense of, since I left you
Since I left you
Im chasing opposites
Things that you do
Pay on my mind till I sets hard I cant
I cant see when you go
I cant see when you go
Silence away, silence with things
No reason why should stay
When you know what to say
To talk me