Sometimes you settle into grooves with your media. Last May I spent about a month devouring giallo films, absorbing the genre and various auteurs (three cheers for Sergio Martino). In music it feels like the past year or so has been a spiraling descent (or ascent, if you prefer as I do) into progressive rock, something I always enjoyed but recently have grown to identify more deeply with. I recently caught a video review for Mind Out of Mind, the sophomore album from Minneapolis’s prog upstarts K’mono over on Sea of Tranquility, and on the strength of that I checked them out, picking up both that album and Return to the “E”, their debut. We’ll get to the new album next, but since I was scrolling through this site and fondly remembering when I was covering my collection in alphabetical order I figured I’d start here, right at the beginning with a fine debut that hints at the growth they’d achieve on their second release.