Title: Sophmore Slump
Product review: I really tried to like this CD, I did . . .Nickel Creek first impressed me when I saw them on a Grand Ole Opry special on TV, I bought the first self-titled CD, thinking they were an instrumental group. Boy was I wrong. Where the first album has strong songwriting with some of the most beautiful harmonies I've ever heard, the new album "This Side" lacks. Now it'd be foolish to think Nickel Creek would make a carbon copy of the previous CD to try to keep the momentum of that gold selling disc, they seem to have taken from all the less desirable parts of the album, and recreated it here on "This Side". The disc does have it's standouts though, with Green and Gray, This Side, and Seven Wonders recapturing some of that classic Nickel Creek sound, mostly, this disc falls flat. Still, if you enjoy this CD even a little bit, go see the Creek live. They're awesome on stage.
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