Frengers

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Frengers
Frengers cover
Studio album by Mew
Released April, 2003
Genre Indie
Length 48:43
Label Sony / Epic
Producer Rich Costey
Professional reviews
Mew chronology
Half the World Is Watching Me
(2000)		 Frengers
(2003)		 And the Glass Handed Kites
(2005)

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.

[edit] 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" – 8:58

[edit] 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!"

It looks like the album is being promoted by something called "Breakers" and is also being sold at a less than normal price.

The "obi" strip is normal with Japanese releases (singles and albums).

  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" – 8:58
  11. "I Should Have Been a Tsin-Tsi (For You)" – 1:57 (*)
  12. "Wherever" – 4:22 (*)

(*) = Bonus Tracks

v • d • e
Mew
Jonas Bjerre | Bo Madsen | Silas Graae
Johan Wohlert
Discography
Albums: A Triumph for Man | Half the World Is Watching Me | Frengers | And the Glass Handed Kites |
Singles: "She Came Home For Christmas" | "King Christian" | "Her Voice is Beyond Her Years" | "Mica" | "Comforting Sounds" | "Am I Wry? No" | "156" | "Apocalypso" | "Special" | "Why Are You Looking Grave?" | "The Zookeeper's Boy"