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''Juju'' is the fourth album by the British rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. After a slightly electronic bent made on a few tracks of their last album, the Banshees returned to a guitar-based sound for ''Juju'', due to the now-official new Banshees guitarist, John McGeoch. Released by Polydor Records in 1981, this album also featured prominently, for the first time, the intricate percussion work of band member Budgie. ''Juju'' was remastered as a single-disc digipack in May 2006.

The album was hailed by both critics and musicians. In 1995, ''Melody Maker'' placed ''Juju'' as "one of the most influential British albums of all time". In 2006, ''Mojo'' honoured John McGeoch by rating him in their list of ''100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time'' for his work on "Spellbound". In 2007, ''The Guardian'' put ''Juju'' in its list of ''1000 albums to hear before you die''. Journalist Alexis Petridis wrote. "Perennial masters of brooding suspense, the Banshees honed their trademark aloof art-rock to its hardest and darkest pitch on Juju. With their musical alchemy at its peak and Siouxsie at her most imperious, pop marvels such as Spellbound and Arabian Knights were poised, peerless exercises in magic realism that you could dance to."

Morrissey selected the first single of ''Juju'', "Spellbound" during an interview for the US Kroq radio in 1997 and said

Morrissey later stated to ''GQ'' in 2005 that ''Juju'' is to him the second best Siouxsie & the Banshees album, while Johnny Marr, of Morrissey's previous band The Smiths, stated on the BBC radio 2 in February 2008 that he rated guitarist John McGeoch highly for his work on the first song of this album, "Spellbound". Marr qualified it as "clever" with "really good picky thing going on which is very un-rock'n'roll". In ''Uncut'', Marr also rated McGeoch at number ten in his all time favourite guitarists for ''Juju'' and ''Real Life'' by Magazine. - Wikipedia