I've never really been too thrilled with Angels and Airwaves and like many other people thought their music sounded like below average filler songs. Judging by the reviews of the album in this thread, I don't believe its going to do much to change my opinion.
Yea, depressing as it is, I don't think blink is ever coming back, simply 'cos Tom seems to want to go in a totally different direction. But then, the Untitled record was somewhat in that direction, and it was amazing. AVA should be more like that I think.