Frengers


Frengers 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.
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 13-year-old Georgia Becky Jarrett. The Japanese version of Frengers also includes the re-recordings of two more earlier songs, "I Should Have Been a Tsin-Tsi " and "Wherever".

Track listing

  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

    Japanese edition bonus tracks

  12. "I Should Have Been a Tsin-Tsi " – 1:57
  13. "Wherever" – 4:22

    Personnel

Mew

YearTitleUK
Singles Chart
2003Comforting Sounds48
2003Am I Wry? No #endnote B|47
2003She Came Home for Christmas #endnote A|55
2003156-

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