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Frengers

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Frengers, alternatively titled as Frengers: Not Quite Friends, But Not Quite Strangers, is the third studio album by Danish alternative rock band Mew. It was 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.

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Type
Album
Artist
Mew
First released
2003-04-07
alternative rockdream popindie rockpoppop rockrock

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Listeners
18
Total plays
58

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Music

Genre
Pop
Year
2003
Tracks
11

Key facts

Album.name
Frengers
Album.type
Studio
Album.artist
Mew
Album.cover
Frengers.jpg
Album.released
7 April 2003
Album.recorded
September 2001–November 2002
Album.genre
Alternative rock
Album.length
48:43
Album.label
Sony
Album.producer
Rich Costey
Album.prev_title
Half the World Is Watching Me
Album.prev_year
2000
Album.next_title
And the Glass Handed Kites
Album.next_year
2005

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11 sections
Contents
  • Background
  • Recording
  • Track listing
  • Personnel
  • Mew
  • Additional musicians
  • Technical
  • Commercial reception
  • Charts
  • Sales
  • References

Frengers, alternatively titled as Frengers: Not Quite Friends, But Not Quite Strangers, is the third studio album by Danish alternative rock band Mew. It was 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.

== Background == 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, but were rerecorded for Frengers. The other four are original recordings.

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