Halcali Bacon

Halcali Bacon (Japanese: ハルカリベーコン) is the first album released by Halcali. It reached number five on the Oricon chart in Japan, and stayed on the chart for 21 weeks, making it the first album by a female hip-hop artist to enter the top ten in Japanese history.^[3] Halcali's debut album featured many well-known Japanese hip-hop producers as guests, as well.^[4] Drowned in Sound's Samual Rosean, in a 2018 article on Shibuya-kei, a micro-genre of Japanese pop combining very different styles, noted that in 2003 it was a "prominent release" (mixing shibuya-kei with "pop rap" and hip-hop), alongside releases by Plus-Tech Squeeze Box and Bo En.^[5]

“For our first album, HalCali Bacon, Fumiya from OTF had been overseas and told us about a breakfast he’d had with crispy bacon.” says Yucali.“‘The Japanese for ‘crispy’ is ‘karikari’, so we call it karikari bacon. So when he said ‘karikari bacon’, it just clicked — karikari bacon became HalCali Bacon.”^[6]

1. "Intro. Halcali Bacon"
2. "タンデム" (Tandem)
3. "ギリギリ・サーフライダー" (Girigiri Surf Rider)
4. "嗚呼ハルカリセンセーション" (AhAh Halcali Sensation)
5. "おつかれSUMMER" (Otsukare Summer, Good Job This Summer)
6. "ハルカリズム "CANDY HEARTS"" (Halcalism "Candy Hearts"/Halcali Rhythm "Candy Hearts")
7. "Conversation of a Mystery"
8. "Peek-A-Boo"
9. "Hello,Hello,Alone"
10. "スタイリースタイリー" (Stylee Stylee)
11. "エレクトリック先生" (Electric Sensei, Electric Teacher)
12. "続・真夜中のグランド" (Tsuzuki, Mayonaka no Grand, Continued: Schoolyard in the Middle of the Night)