If It's Too Loud...

Any time Magic Shoppe releases new music it's time to celebrate. The Boston band specializes in "Hypnotic Reverb Rock," and we've been fully on board for a while now. If you've been here for a while, you know that we also love covers and free music, so when a band like Magic Shoppe releases a free album of cover songs... how can we resist? The seven songs that make up (Not Our) Greatest Hits  make perfect sense for a band like Magic Shoppe. The album opens up with "PDA" from Interpol, and it's the kind of cover that makes me long for the days of Interpol's first album. It's a perfectly faithful cover of the original, but just with Magic Shoppe's harder edge to it. Mercury Rev's "Frittering" is a nine minute epic that even if you're lukewarm at the start will have you rabid for more by the end. My Bloody Valentine is exactly what I would want to hear Magic Shoppe covering, and their take on "When You Wake" is an...