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Released
  
April 2003

Artist
  
Mew

Producer
  
Rich Costey

Length
  
48:43

Release date
  
7 April 2003

Label
  
Evil Office

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Frengers (2003)
  
And The Glass Handed Kites (2005)

Genres
  
Indie rock, Alternative rock, Dream pop, Shoegazing

Similar
  
Mew albums, Shoegazing albums, Other albums

Mew am i wry no


Frengers is the third album by Danish band Mew, originally released in April 2003.

Contents

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 Half The World Is Watching Me and A Triumph For Man, 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".

Mew frengers 2003 original release


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

Japanese edition bonus tracks

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

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

    • Songs

    1Am I Wry? No4:54
    21564:57
    3Snow Brigade4:23

    References

    Frengers Wikipedia
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