High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Formica Blues is an album from UK band Mono. It was first released in the UK in 1997. Four singles were released from the album, of which the lead single, "Life in Mono", was the most successful. The album reached no.71 in the U.K albums charts and remained on the chart for 1 week. In the U.S the album reached 137 on the billboard 200 and remained on the chart for 7 weeks.