Back to the Mono Kero

Infobox Album |
Name = Back to the Mono Kero
Type = Album
Artist = eX-Girl
Released = Start date|2001|05|29
Recorded = August/October, 2000
Length = 55:13 (US release)
Label = HIBOOM
Producer = Hoppy Kamiyama

Last album = "Big When Far, Small When Close"
(2000)
This album = "Back to the Mono Kero"
(2001)
Next album = "Endangered Species"
(2004)

"Back to the Mono Kero" is the fourth studio album by Japanese girl band eX-Girl, released by HIBOOM in Japan, Ipecac Recording in the US (IPC-15), 62 TV Records in Belgium, Valve Records in Australia, and Levy-yhtiö in Finland.

The line-up consisted of Chihiro, Kirilo and Fuzuki, and the album was produced by Hoppy Kamiyama.

Track listing

# "Waving Scientist @ Frog King" (Lyrics: eX-Girl / Music: Hoppy Kamiyama, eX-Girl) – 3:58.
# "Tozka" (Lyrics: Chihiro / Music: Kamiyama, eX-Girl) – 5:05.
# "Aji Fry (Fried Horse Mackerel)" (Lyrics: eX-Girl, Kamiyama / Music: Kamiyama, eX-Girl) – 4:11.
# "Pop Muzik" (Lyrics & Music: Robin Scott) – 4:51.
# "Gween-Kong-Zee" (Lyrics: Kirilo / Music: Kamiyama, eX-Girl) – 4:57.
# "Cucumber Surrender" (Lyrics: Kirilo / Music: Kamiyama, eX-Girl) – 5:47.
# "Wipe Out #3" (Music: Kamiyama) – 2:12.
# "Solid States Kerok'n'Roll" (Lyrics: eX-Girl / Music: Kamiyama, eX-Girl) – 4:22.
# "Zero Gravity" (Lyrics: Fuzuki / Music: Kamiyama, eX-Girl) – 4:35.
# "Crime of the Century" (Music: Kamiyama, eX-Girl) – 9:46.
# "Sasuke" (Lyrics: Kirilo, Kamiyama / Music: Kamiyama, eX-Girl) – 5:25.

Bonus tracks

* "Let My Name Be Swallow" – track 12 (Japanese release).
* "Swanky*Spunky*Slinky" – track 12 (Belgian release).

Personnel

* Chihiro – vocals, guitar, sitar.
* Kirilo – vocals, bass, Casiotone.
* Fuzuki – vocals, drums, percussion.
* Steve Eto – tom-tom (M-6).
* Hoppy Kamiyama – Digital President, asshole box, scum tape from garbage, Slide Geisha, metal, gram pot.

Production

* Hoppy Kamiyama – producer.
* Yoshiaki Kondo – engineering, mixing at GOK Sound Studio, Tokyo, August/October 2000.
* Masayo Takise – mastering at M's Disc, Tokyo.
* Patricia de Ruijter, Saguaro – photos.
* Kazunori Akita, Robeert Farrell – eX-Girl logos.
* Naomi Hamada, Yukari Terakawa, Reiko – costumes.
* Tomoko Kobayasi – hairdresser.