New Mastodon is..well, new Mastodon. Lots of good riffs, lots of annoying vocal lines -- but definitely less than in the latest ones.
Possibly their best effort since Crack the Skye? has at least 4 tracks that are very, very good (More Than i Could Chew, Dagger, Had it All, Eyes of Serpents).
Yeah the first EP was better and such blah blah blah