Madame X

Album Ranked #35 | 2019 - Electronic, Reggae, Latin, Pop, Folk, World, & Country
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Best two reviews:
1) musicOMH.com- Bold, bizarre, brazen and beguiling, Madame X is Madonna living her Latin American Life. Brilliant. (Rating: 90) Read Full Review >
2) Boston Globe- While it chafes against pop-musical expectations and outright defies them at times, “Madame X” does embrace that planet-altering ideal lyrically as well as musically, making it Madonna’s most compelling album in years. (Rating: 80) Read Full Review >

Worst two reviews:
16) Pitchfork- Her pop exists to exploit and sand off edges, packaging esotericism for the masses. It’s just that on Madame X, she is not merely dining out on other cultures; she’s whipping around drive-thrus. (Rating: 48) Read Full Review >
17) The Quietus- Overall, Madonna’s fourteenth album Madame X feels as if Mirwais had mostly completed a decent run-of-the-mill modern pop record, albeit with a cool hotch-potch global feel; hip nods in place to fado, dub and other micro-genres dunked amongst the trap and retro disco. But then just before sign-off, Herself went through the top-lines with a sharpie. ... None of these carefully curated flourishes feel as if they truly live inside the ‘whole’ of this music. Instead it all feels plonked on top of a template. (Rating: 40) Read Full Review >
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