I'm enjoying Paradise Valley at the moment, I think it's a great album. Like Born & Raised, it has some tracks that I loved immediately (Paper Doll, I Will Be Found, Badge & Gun), with a lot of the other tracks sounding relatively generic on my first listen. On further listens I actually enjoy pretty much every part of the album, sans both collaborations, neither of which I like and doubt I ever will like. The album is undoubtedly better than Battle Studies (imo Mayer's worst chapter). I think it would have done John a favour to save tracks like 'Go Easy On Me' for Paradise Valley rather than releasing it on an EP between albums, the same way he should have put 'Taking on Water' and 'In Your Atmosphere' on Battle Studies. 'Go Easy on Me' in place of that stupid Frank Ocean song would definitely raise the album a star or two for me, although I can appreciate how that song is more B&R than PV.
It's a disappointingly short album, only in that sense that I enjoy listening to John so much that I didn't want it to end and wish I had an endless supply of new material from him.

The fact that John managed to put out such a good album after only releasing B&R just more than a year prior is pretty awesome if you ask me. It hasn't knocked me off my feet like Continuum did the first time I heard it, but I don't think I'll ever hear an album that appeals to my tastes as well as Continuum does for a long, long time.