Frengers

Infobox Album | Name = Frengers
Type = Album
Artist = Mew

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| Mew - Frengers
Released = April, 2003
Recorded =
Genre = Indie
Length = 48:43
Label = Sony / Epic
Producer = Rich Costey
Reviews =
*BBC - rating-10|8 [http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/music/2003/04/14/frengers.shtml link]
*Stylus - (B+) [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/mew/frengers.htm]
*PopMatters (Favorable) [http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/m/mew-frengers.shtml]
*Drowned In Sound - rating-10|8 [http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/3283]
Last album = "Half the World Is Watching Me"
(2000)
This album = "Frengers"
(2003)
Next album = "And the Glass Handed Kites"
(2005)
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"Frengers" is an album by Danish band Mew, released in 2003.

Well received by critics, "Frengers" gave the band their international breakthrough.

The title is a contraction 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.

Many of the tracks on the album were previously included on Mew's first two albums "Half the World Is Watching Me" and "A Triumph for Man", both of which saw only limited release. "Am I Wry? No", "156", "Symmetry", "Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years" and "Comforting Sounds" appeared on the former with "She Came Home for Christmas" appearing on the latter.

Although these tracks were re-recorded for "Frengers" only "Am I Wry? No" and "156" differ substantially from their original incarnations. The "Frengers" version of "Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years" also differs from the version on the first edition of "Half the World Is Watching Me", but due to the rarity of that edition, most listeners have similar versions.

The song "Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years" features vocals from Swedish Artist Stina Nordenstam and "Symmetry" features vocals from 14 year old Becky Jarrett of Georgia, USA.

Track listing

#"Am I Wry? No" – 4:54
#"156" – 4:55
#"Snow Brigade" – 4:22
#"Symmetry" – 5:39
#"Behind the Drapes" – 3:40
#"Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years" – 2:48
#"Eight Flew Over, One Was Destroyed" – 4:48
#"She Came Home for Christmas" – 3:55
#"She Spider" – 4:44
#"Comforting Sounds" – 8:58

Track listing (Japanese Release)

Frengers was also released in Japan. As usual in Japan, this release includes extra tracks. One of the two extra tracks, "Wherever" can be found on CD 1 of the UK and Danish release of the Comforting Sounds CD single, but the new version of "I Should Have Been a Tsin-Tsi (For You)" can only currently be found on the promo samplers for Frengers.

There is an additional booklet inside the normal sleeve which includes the lyrics in Japanese plus English lyrics for "Wherever" and "I Should Have Been a Tsin-Tsi (For You)". There is also a note just before the lyrics for "Wherever" by Jonas Bjerre (Vocals) which says "It's called Wherever, not the best of our lyrics but please consider I was only 16 when I wrote it... see you soon!"

# "Am I Wry? No" – 4:54
# "156" – 4:55
# "Snow Brigade" – 4:22
# "Symmetry" – 5:39
# "Behind the Drapes" – 3:40
# "Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years" – 2:48
# "Eight Flew Over, One Was Destroyed" – 4:48
# "She Came Home for Christmas" – 3:55
# "She Spider" – 4:44
# "Comforting Sounds" – 8:58
# "I Should Have Been a Tsin-Tsi (For You)" – 1:57 (*)
# "Wherever" – 4:22 (*)

(*) = Bonus Tracks