Album Info Hide Show Artist: Cute Is What We Aim For Album: The Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch Released: USA, 2021 Tracklist: A1 Newport Living A2 There’s A Class For This A3 Finger Twist & Split A4 Risque A5 Sweat The Battle Before The Battle Sweats You A6 The Fourth Drink Instinct B7 Sweet Talk 101 B8 The Curse Of Curves B9 I Put The ‘Metro’ In Metronome B10 Lyrical Lies B11 Moan B12 Teasing To Please (Left Side, Strong Side) Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. 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If the record arrives damaged or doesn’t arrive we will cover the cost of replacing or returning the record. If you change your mind you have 30 days to return your record but you must cover the cost of returning it to the store. You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show Some records take you straight back to a time and place. The Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch does that in a flash, all skinny jeans, Myspace top eights, and a basement full of kids shouting along until their voices go. Released on 20 June 2006 through Fueled by Ramen, it was the debut album from Buffalo outfit Cute Is What We Aim For, and it caught a specific spark in mid2000s pop rock. You can hear the confidence of a young band that had already built a devoted online following, then walked into the studio with producer Matt Squire and turned that energy into something glossy and radioready without losing the cheek. The opener tees up the thesis straight away. These songs run on sharp hooks and even sharper wordplay, delivered by frontman Shaant Hacikyan in a voice that sits between sly and earnest. The big single, The Curse of Curves, still hits like a sugar rush. The guitars are bright, the drums snap, and the lyric tumbles out with that selfaware wit that defined the era. Theres a reason it became a fan favourite and pushed the band into a wider conversation. It sounds like a night out in 2006 when the last bus has gone and no one cares. Theres a streak of theatre in their writing that keeps things lively. Theres a Class for This bounces along on chiming chords and snarky asides, but the chorus lands with unashamed pop charm. Newport Living leans into the social skewer, all pointed lines about status and messiness, while Sweet Talk 101 turns the flirt into a game and lets the rhythm section do the heavy lifting. Even when the band shifts gears into slower or more dramatic moments, the melodies stay front and centre. Squires production gives the vocals plenty of room and keeps the guitars crisp, which suits a record built on quick turns of phrase. What makes the album age better than you might expect is the specificity. Plenty of mid2000s peers wrote about young romance and bad decisions, but Cute Is What We Aim For wrote like they had a red pen and a grudge. The best cuts read like overheard conversations, petty in places, painfully on the nose in others. Its messy in a way that feels honest. That quality connected hard at the time with the Myspace generation and still makes sense now, especially if you grew up with Fueled by Ramen sleeves stacked beside your stereo. If youre chasing this one on wax, The Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch vinyl is a fun time. The albums bright top end and punchy low mids translate well, and those layered vocals sit nicely when you give them a proper spin. Its the kind of thing you might stumble across in a Melbourne record store and grin at, because the sleeve alone is a time capsule. For anyone hunting Cute Is What We Aim For vinyl specifically, youll know these pressings come and go, so keep an eye on reissues and decent secondhand copies that havent been flogged at too many house parties. Culturally, the record helped round out a moment when Fueled by Ramen was a shorthand for hookdriven bands that toured hard and spoke straight to teenagers. Cute Is What We Aim For slotted into that scene with a lyrical voice that felt a bit more cynical and chatty than most. Reviews at the time were mixed, but fans did the heavy lifting and the songs stuck. Put it next to the labels mid2000s catalogue and it still sounds like a cardcarrying member of the crew. Spin it today and the choruses remain stubbornly catchy. The bands interplay has a tight, practiceroom feel, and Hacikyans cadence adds character that studio trickery cant fake. Its a record that rewards fronttoback play. You go in for the singles, then end up staying for the deep cuts and the way the sequencing keeps the pace. If youre building a collection, Cute Is What We Aim For albums on vinyl are a neat snapshot of where pop rock and emoadjacent songwriting intersected in the mid2000s. You can buy Cute Is What We Aim For records online through the usual suspects, and its worth checking shops that specialise in vinyl records Australia wide for local stock before you pay silly import postage. This album wont solve any existential puzzles, but it nails the feeling of being young, messy, and a bit too clever for your own good. Thats its charm, and it still rings out clear. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review