Frengers
Sign in to saveFrengers, 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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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
Key dates
- Published
- 2003
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- album
- Genre
- pop rock
- Followed by
- And the Glass Handed Kites
- Performer
- Mew
- Record label
- Sony Music
- Distribution format
- music streaming
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- P7937
- studio album
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- Denmark
Article
11 sectionsContents
- 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.