Noel Hogan's Mono Band came about by accident. The project's origins lie in the discussions The Cranberries began as they planned a new album.
“I had an idea to take the songs in a different direction,” Noel recalls. “For a long while I'd been listening to people like Beck and Moby and wondering how to incorporate the electronic side of things into my own writing. We'd done the guitar-drums line-up on five albums and it was time to introduce something else.”