Frengers

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Frengers
Frengers.jpg
Studio album by
Mew
Released7 April 2003
RecordedSeptember 2001–November 2002
Studio
Genre
Length48:43
Label Sony
Producer Rich Costey
Mew chronology
Half the World Is Watching Me
(2000)
Frengers
(2003)
And the Glass Handed Kites
(2005)
Singles from Frengers
  1. "Comforting Sounds"
    Released: 24 March 2003
  2. "Am I Wry? No"
    Released: 16 June 2003
  3. "156"
    Released: July 2003 (Europe only)
  4. "She Came Home for Christmas" / "That Time on the Ledge"
    Released: 15 December 2003
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
BBC 8/10 [3]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 [4]
Gaffa Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [5]
PopMatters favorable [1]
Sputnikmusic5/5 [6]
Stylus Magazine B+ [7]
Uncut 8/10 [8]

Frengers, alternatively titled as Frengers: Not Quite Friends, But Not Quite Strangers, is the third album by Danish band Mew, originally released on 7 April 2003. The title is a portmanteau of the words "friend" and "stranger". A frenger is a person who is "not quite a friend but not quite a stranger" according to the album's accompanying booklet.

Contents

Six of the album's ten tracks were previously included on Mew's first two albums A Triumph for Man and Half the World Is Watching Me , both of which saw only limited release until they were subsequently rereleased internationally, but were rerecorded for Frengers. The other four are original recordings. The song "Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years" features vocals from Swedish singer Stina Nordenstam and "Symmetry" features vocals from 14-year-old Becky Jarrett from Georgia, US. The Japanese version of Frengers also includes the re-recordings of two more earlier songs, "I Should Have Been a Tsin-Tsi (For You)" and "Wherever".

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Am I Wry? No"4:54
2."156"4:55
3."Snow Brigade"4:22
4."Symmetry"5:39
5."Behind the Drapes"3:40
6."Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years"2:48
7."Eight Flew Over, One Was Destroyed"4:48
8."She Came Home for Christmas"3:55
9."She Spider"4:44
10."Comforting Sounds"8:53
Total length:48:43

Japanese edition bonus tracks

No.TitleLength
11."I Should Have Been a Tsin-Tsi (For You)"1:57
12."Wherever"4:22
Total length:55:02

Personnel

Mew

Additional personnel

Singles

YearTitleUK
Singles Chart
2003Comforting Sounds48
Am I Wry? No [b] 47
She Came Home for Christmas [a] 55
156
Notes

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