I’m going to go the other way. I like it!
In particular I like that the “too colorful and noisy” icons were replaced with cleaner monochrome icons. I’d make them even cleaner and somewhat less detailed. Simplest possible shapes that are still recognizable, with low detail but high variability is what’s best from a usability perspective. That is what is most easily and quickly recognized.
Grid or list layout doesn’t really matter to me.
Sorting does matter. Here too, I think sorting albums by album artist makes far more sense. I’m amazed anyone navigates their collection by album name (how and why does anyone remember album names?) 
However, these things are subjective. It will never be possible to please everyone. Ideally there is a a single flyout to configure both layout and ordering in each view.