The new Boston stuff sounds ... like a demo ... terrible drum sound, overall instrument imbalance, Scholz' is so secluded in his recording room, he doesn't seem to register how ever since the nineties there has been a return to more natural recording sounds at all. Or maybe the new recording quality is just unforgiving to that cut and paste approach he has always employed. In parts it sounds like classic rock/AOR must sound to people who don't like classic rock or AOR.
But thinking about it now, that could be an EB on those tracks.