Let me guess. You off-shored the UI work and the person managing the off-shore development team got to check off one of their objectives - “New UI done”.
The grey banner in the Now Playing is UGLY. The grey color scheme does not fit in, it sticks out like a sore thumb. The banner takes up too much space and reduces the usable real estate from the elements above it. What is with the dinky little album art in the banner? That could just be an icon.
Please give users the option to go back to the old UI and add the ability to have large album art. This part of the UI should be user configurable.