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'', 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

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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".

Track listing

Japanese edition bonus tracks

Personnel

Mew

Jonas Bjerre Jonas Bjerre Terkelsbøl (born 21 September 1976) is a musician and visual artist from Copenhagen, Denmark, best known as the lead singer of Danish rock band Mew. Bjerre creates animated videos for Mew's live shows. He has an uncommon vocal ra ...

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, vocals * Bo Madsen – electric guitars, acoustic guitar *

Johan Wohlert Johan Haslund Wohlert (born 10 March 1976) is the bass player of Danish indie band Mew. He previously left the band on 11 April 2006, because he did not feel that he could be a rock star and a good father at the same time. He was boyfriend to Pe ...

– bass, guitars *Silas Utke Graae Jørgensen –

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Additional personnel

*Tobias Wilner Bertram -

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on tracks 6, 8 *Rich Costey -

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on track 6 *Klaus Nielsen - piano on track 6 *Bo Rande -

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

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 *

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- mastering *Stefan Ruiz -

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*Flemming Rasmussen, Troels Alsted, Andreas Hviid, Dan Lefler, Darren Mora and Fred Archanbault - additional engineering

Singles

;Notes * a^ Re-released in 2000, 2002 and 2003. Peaked at #76 on the UK Singles Chart in 2002. * b^ Re-released in 2003. Peaked at #137 on UK Singles Chart on its first release.

References

{{Authority control 2003 albums Mew (band) albums Albums produced by Joshua (record producer) Albums produced by Rich Costey