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[–]colin826 0 points1 point ago


Ghostdeini is an alright album. I think "Guest House" is a sick track, but that's the only thing I ever have an urge to revisit.

The problem with the record is that when Ghost finally decided to make his R&B album, he didn't make a Ghostface R&B album. This record is devoid of a lot of the originality that Ghost brings to the table. Instead of it being R&B taken through a Ghostface filter, it was Ghostface taken through an R&B filter. It has more in common with mediocre contemporary R&B then the old soul influence that Ghost has had in his previous albums. I was incredibly disappointed to get a cookie-cutter commercial sounding R&B album instead of something where I might hear Ghost holler overtop of an old Delfonics song.

The album doesn't succeed as a hip-hop album and it doesn't succeed as an R&B album. If we want to talk 2009 in particular, why listen to this when you could listen to The-Dream's Love vs. Money? Or Trey Songz' Ready? Or Ryan Leslie's debut?