The Same Old Blood Rush With a New Touch (Digital Album)

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Cute Is What We Aim For

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According to All Music and their critics, Cute Is What We Aim For and their cheekiness is not much to their liking. But what's really strange to me is there was only a measely second of hesitation on my part to like this CD; by the time the ending of the first track "Newport Living" came along, this band had a brand new fan. "You wanted to sell out/ but you couldn't even do that right/ so your price tag has been slashed/ and now you're on a half price clearance rack," umm hello, what a crack up. I love the fact they make fun of everything including themselves, where some critics find that they are perhaps trying to too hard to be clever, I disagree and think they're just funny enough to be clever - "The Fourth Drink Instinct" the story of a girl who gets drunk and screws someone and turns around and is surprised when he leaves her in the morning is great. It's a power rock ballad and perhaps it's toned down in terms of lyrics I can surely relate to it (I know friends like that) (What made you think that he couldn't find the door in the morning/ when he found that bed so easily in the dark?) ; "There's A Class For This" includes lines "drama doesn't follow me/ it rides on my back/ I may be ugly/ but they sure love to stare..." and in "Risque" they give us "Medically speaking you're adorable/and from what I hear/ you're quite affordable..." I love it. Musically, the band is more poppy than Boy Kill Boy and less tragic guitars a la The Smiths, but they aren't quite as experimental and fun as say Wheatus, in fact they sound a lot like a lot of those bands I don't like that out now a days - the dime a door dozen type with the chugging guitars and the high pitced wincy voice, but this time around it has won me over, the music moves in jaunts and rhythmic motions and the vocals are actually giving me a thrill with the witty lyrics - so critics be damned I'm telling you The Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch is clever and lovable and umm cute.

Ok first off we should disregard everyone that doesn't like the whole emo/poppy-punk genre...there's no point in you even thinking about this album if you don't like guys whining about girls.

Luckily, I love that kind of thing.

Cute is What We Aim For has a lot of potential, they just haven't quite got it right this time around. Their demos were highly regarded for the stripped-down emotional qualities (such as "lyrical lies") which unfortunately in these rerecorded versions come out a bit bland.

There are a lot of good moments in this album but the overproduction has really washed away the emotional quality that drew me to the band in the first place. I honestly feel like those studio morons are ruining modern music. We don't need reverb and 5 vocal tracks for every line, and we don't need voice correction software to fix every minor voice crack. It's ok though because I'm crossing my fingers that they'll get it right the second time around.

The album is worth it having but isn't fantastic. They're young, however, and I think given enough time they'll be able to work the studio instead of having the studio work them.