AMG Review of Conversations With Queen [Clean]

Michael Gallucci
All Music Guide

Pen's second album is aggressive, tuneful, and fluid. Unfortunately, you have to sift through several tracks to get all this (not one song features all these estimable qualities). Teddy Riley jacks up the album's best cut, "I Got Cha," while the see-sawing "Baby Daddy" is more representative of Conversations' tone and style. A solid, if unremarkable, sophomore showing. [Conversations With Queen was also released in a "clean" edition, containing no profanities or vulgarities.]