Released as Billboard’s #1 in top album sales, “Madame X,” the spy-filled thriller personifying Madonna’s various mystiques (mother, nun, Joan of Arc) presents us with her experimental musical pleasures, incorporating Portuguese and African influences and adding a dose of social consciousness. Deciding not to play it commercially “safe,” her 14th studio album is triumphant, haunting and mystical. Bold and riveting, Madonna allows herself to do music she enjoys rather than going for the pop radio...