Known on his first two albums for his rugged rhymes and eagle-eye street narratives, Ghostface uses his third album to mellow out, adding R&B grooves to his always-evolving repertoire. Singers invade the hooks, delightfully—from Carl Thomas gently crooning on “Never Be the Same Again” to Ruff Endz piling layered harmonies on “Love Session.” Despite shapeshifting beyond hip-hop, Ghostface remains clever and versatile lyrically, providing dizzying wordplay on the dance hit “Ghost Showers” and trading sharp bars with Raekwon on “Maxine.”