Frengers

Frengers
Studio album by Mew
Released	7 April 2003
Genre	Alternative rock, psychedelic rock, shoegaze, dream pop, noise rock, noise pop
Length	48:43
Label	Sony, Epic
Producer	Rich Costey
Mew chronology
Half the World Is Watching Me (2000)Half the World Is Watching Me2000 Frengers (2003) And the Glass Handed Kites (2005)And the Glass Handed Kites2005
Singles from Frengers
"Comforting Sounds" Released: 2003 "Am I Wry? No" Released: 2003 "She Came Home for Christmas" Released: 2003 "156" Released: July 2003

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	link
BBC	(8/10) link
Drowned in Sound	(8/10) link
Gaffa	link
PopMatters	(Favorable) link
Sputnikmusic	link
Stylus Magazine	(B+) link
Uncut	link

Frengers is the third album by Danish band Mew, originally released in 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 included the rerecordings of earlier songs, "I Should Have Been a Tsin-Tsi (For You)" 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

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

Personnel

Mew

• Jonas Bjerre – electric guitars, acoustic guitar, piano, harmonium, mellotron, synthesizers, vocals
• Bo Madsen – electric guitars, acoustic guitar
• Johan Wohlert – bass, guitars
• Silas Utke Graae Jørgensen – drums, percussion

Additional personnel

• Tobias Betram - turntables on tracks 6, 8
• Rich Costey - ride cymbal on track 6
• Klaus Nielsen - piano on track 6
• Bo Rande - trumpet on track 10
• Damon Tutunjian - additional vocals on track 2, additional guitars on track 9
• Patrick Warren - piano on tracks 1, 8
• Nick Watts - piano on tracks 4, 10, synthesizers on tracks 9, 10
• George Marino - mastering
• Stefan Ruiz - photography
• Flemming Rasmussen, Troels Alsted, Andreas Hviid, Dan Lefler, Darren Mora and Fred Archanbault - additional engineering

Singles

References