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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. 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. The song "Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years" features vocals from Swedish singer Stina Nordenstam and "Symmetry" features vocals from 14-year-old Becky Jarrett from Georgia, US. The Japanese version of Frengers also includes the re-recordings of two more earlier songs, "I Should Have Been a Tsin-Tsi (For You)" and "Wherever".
This band was completely unknown to me. And too bad they are splitting up, because I LOVED this music! Very atmospheric and dreamy, but some heavier parts too. The vocals are amazing. And the complete sound of it just touched me in a way I can't really describe
I had no idea what any of this was but it was really good. Mix of death cab for cutie, shoegaze, and maybe a little beach house. Comforting sounds was my fav.
Danish indie from just before landfill indie swept away all the good stuff
Yooooooo who did this? Danish band lets goo Kinda a 4 album, but comforting sounds is a straight 10 5
Really liked this! Some great songs from Denmark that I’m glad to have here.
I really loved listening to this!
Great indie rock album. I’m stunned I never heared of Mew. I listened to the whole album thinking it was a female singer. So I’m impressed by the vocal range of the frontman. I do not think all material is strong, but I was captured by the second half of the album (She Came Home for Christmas, Eight Flew Over, One Was Destroyed and Comforting Sounds). Certainly the last two are amazing.
Very nice. Reminds me a lot of Death Cab for Cutie and other indie bands from the early oughts. 4 stars.
Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Am I wry? No, Snow brigade, Behind the drapes, She came home for christmas, She spider
I have no idea what to expect from this. Let's just go. I dunno how to describe this. It's kinda like post rock, but follows more usual song structures. Not always, but it isn't like 15min drawn out dirges. Singing is neither here nor there. 3/5.
The title is pretty stupid so that's a poor start. The music I found to be pretty middle of the road pop with a lot of faux-orchestral vibes and lyrically it has a bit of that Scandanavian ESL thing. I didn't hate it but thought it merely OK.
Rock alternativo. Ni fu ni fa.
I’d never listened to Mew before, so this was a fun introduction. Not every track jumped out at me, but the general personality and sense of genuine fun radiating from each track made this an enjoyable listen. I see the list as a way of uncovering musical blind spots so this was a great add imo - I never knew this kind of Panchiko-esque metal-adjacent rock was being made so early into the aughts.