"No surprises" is pretty much how I would sum up the new EitS album. It's not bad, it makes for pleasant background music, and a couple tracks rise above the mediocre, but there are a LOT of moments on the album where I think "this exact thing has been done before, and better".
As I recently said to someone, ever since the last two proper Mono albums, EitS has been rendered somewhat unnecessary. It's like EitS cured the flu, and then the next day, Mono cured AIDS.