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Having spent the better part of our year in their great company, JUICE now collects and plays favourites with 100 of 2009’s major records, in a list of considerable love and length.

98 Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
It’s not you, it’s all Lily Allen on this cotton candy cloud of a pop album

80 Simian Mobile Disco – Temporary Pleasure
It may be temporary, but SMD’s pleasurable techno is still worth your time

72 Devendra Banhart – What Will We Be
Dev strips back the freak to allow the full-blooded folk to shine

64 The Mars Volta – Octahedron
A reflective and understated outing still big enough to fit your open mind

61 DJ Hell – Teufelswerk
The devil himself delivers on his life’s work in a techno-ambient idiom

54 Major Lazer – Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do
Diplo and Switch join forces and throw one helluva dancehall-reggae party

52 Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
Dramatic oddballs unveil a bolder and more challenging treasure chest of pop

41 Wavves – Wavves
How lo-fi can you go? For Wavves, he goes pretty lo – his fuzz and slop nicely offset by his glorious and hip pop

32 The Juan Maclean – The Future Will Come
Featuring some of the most learned electro-disco detail – off-kilter enough to be punk and polished enough to shine

29 Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
Our boys are all grown up, hanging with Josh Homme in the desert and fattening up on hard, hard rock

24 Antony & The Johnsons – The Crying Light
The most exquisite poetry and philosophy worm their way onto Antony’s most intimate and astounding statement (so far)

17 Gossip – Music for Men
Your all-new Gossip is a leaner and meaner dance machine, its big synth-disco now littering the dance floor with sweaty bodies

15 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Dirty-sweet dream pop made with a bit of pain, lots of heart, and all of being young and pure

08 Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
Dave Longstreth reformats his art-pop songwriting to fit everything from bizarre indie noises to delicate ballads to off-tune r&b

02 The Big Pink – A Brief History Of Love
Dream pop gets one edgy facelift here, with enough power chords and fresh reverb to equal its post-millennial angst

Find out the 75 other albums on the list in the latest JUICE, now out at these spots.

Text: Min Chen and her Team
Images: Various sources

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