  cover art  I the Mighty  Karma Never Sleeps  (Equal Vision;
US: 27 Mar 2012; UK: Import)  Predictable tension-and-release
songs from this San Francisco quartet, a band that calls to mind
the glory days of emo with such enthusiasm that, for a moment or
two, you feel like you’re back in 2005, your ragged pink and
black wristband soaked in sweat and someone else’s energy drink.
So impassioned is the music that you can almost see the digital
meters rise and fall with each word that leaves Brent Walsh’s
mouth, each indistinguishable strum of indistinguishable
guitars, and each bash of drums that may or may not be sampled
from other albums. You can almost call up the ProTools files on
your own mental monitor––it’s almost like you were there for
every prefabricated moment. It’s true, though, what the title of
this record tells us. Karma never sleeps and neither do
machines, hence we can expect about five more records like this
in the next 10-15 seconds.    I the Mighty - Dancing on a
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