List Price: £8.99 (GBP)
- Lowest New Price: £3.78
- Lowest Used Price: £2.68
- Lowest Collectible Price: £3.10
- Total New: 17
- Total Used: 9
- Total Collectible: 2
- Total Refurbished: 0
- Artist : Mew
- Binding : Audio CD
- EAN : 0886970370523
- Label : Sony
- Manufacturer : Sony
- MPN : 886970370523
- Number Of Discs : 1
- Package Dimensions : 0.54 inches (Height) x 5.55 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 4.97 inches (Width)
- Package Quantity : 1
- Part Number : 886970370523
- Product Group : Music
- Publisher : Sony
- Release Date : 2007-01-23
- SKU : JUN11D07-451847
- Studio : Sony
- UPC : 886970370523
Even the title of the first track of Mew's debut album, Frengers, is a statement of intent of sorts. They may ask "Am I Wry?" but listen closely and it's obvious that being "wry" is something Mew just don't do. Frengers is not an ironic album in any sense of the word; it's an authentic and heartfelt record which has seen the young Danes compared to Mercury Rev or Sigur Ros after releasing only a couple of singles. The comparisons aren't that wide of the mark either: there are occasional touches of the epic in the lush, slow-burning "Symmetry" with Stina Nordenstam and in "Comforting Sounds", which really ought to be overlong at nearly nine minutes but far from outstays its welcome. Other tracks, such as "Am I Wry? No" or "Behind the Drapes", with its plaintive chorus "Why are we so alone, even in company?", are more straightforward, borrowing heavily from American college rock bands like Superchunk. Frengers delivers on its promise of a passionate and occasionally breathtaking album that it's very hard to be wry about. --Chris Blenkarn
- Amazon.co.uk Review
Tracks:
Disc 1
- 1: Am I Wry? No
- 2: 156
- 3: Snow Brigade
- 4: Symmetry
- 5: Behind The Drapes
- 6: Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years
- 7: Eight Flew Over, One Was Destroyed
- 8: She Came Home For Christmas
- 9: SheSpider
- 10: Comforting Sounds
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