title: Queens Are Trumps: Kirifuda wa Queen
text: # Queens Are Trumps: Kirifuda wa Queen
  
  Queens Are Trumps: Kirifuda wa Queen (Queens are trumps -切り札はクイーン-) is the fourth studio album by Japanese pop rock band, Scandal. The album was released on September 26, 2012 by Epic. It is available in three different editions, a limited CD+DVD version, a regular CD Only version, and a limited CD+Photobook edition. The album reached #4 on the Oricon weekly charts and charted for 12 weeks.
  
  "Welcome home" was used as the theme song for the TV program Mizu to Midori no Campaign.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * HARUNA (Haruna Ono) - lead vocals, rhythm guitar
  * MAMI (Mami Sasazaki) - lead guitar, lead vocals on track 7, backing vocals
  * TOMOMI (Tomomi Ogawa) - bass, lead and backing vocals
  * RINA (Rina Suzuki) - drums, backing vocals
  
  ### Guest musicians
  
  * Yoshio Nomura - lead guitar on track 1
  * Yūzō Ōkusu - synthesizer
  * Hirohito Furui - synthesizer
  * Akira Onozuka - piano
  * Kazuta Katsuki - saxophone
  * Watanabe Fire - saxophone
  * Shin Kazuhara - trumpet
  * Sirō Sasaki - trumpet
  * Azusa Tōjō - trombone
  * Matarō Misawa - percussions
  * Yuki Okazaki - chorus
  * Yūichi Ikusawa - chorus
  