I couldn't wait to hear the latest Nickel Creek cd when it was released.Their debut album was one of the best i've heard in years.Just about every song got in your head and made you sing it to yourself all day long.If that's what you're looking for with "This Side" try somewhere else!The cd shows the biggest change seen between two releases in quite a long time.There's no great harmonies,no fancy hooks,no great song-writing.Plus the production is very weak.I have listened to the cd several times now and "Hanging By A Thread" is the only song that has anything going on.What you'll find is one good guitar part here,another catchy phrase for a second or two in another song and so on and so on.If you were really good at editing you could probably take all those parts and come up with one listenable song!