Photo credit: Mika Stjärnglinder
Swedish italo disco / synthpop duo Sally Shapiro will release their new album Ready To Live A Lie on May 30th via Italians Do It Better and today are sharing their new single/video "Guarding Shell".
On the new single, the band said "'Guarding Shell' is a track in a super classic Sally Shapiro style. On at least one track per album, we feel it's nice to go back to our roots and our interpretation of italo disco, where it all started for us. Just because we love this style of music so much. The theme here is daring to trust someone after having been hurt. We asked music video editor Iris Beatrix to edit a music video out of a Japanese anime that we thought fit perfectly to the theme and feeling of the track."
"Guarding Shell" on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cuSz9EJiKkE
"Guarding Shell" on other streaming services: https://idib.ffm.to/guardingshell
Made up of producer Johan Agebjörn and an anonymous female vocalist who uses the pseudonym Sally Shapiro; the duo are known for their dreamy, melancholic sound and nostalgic homage to 1980s Italo disco and gained international recognition with their debut album Disco Romance (2007), which was then followed by My Guilty Pleasure (2009), Somewhere Else (2013) and their debut for Italians Do It Better Sad Cities (2022).
The name "Sally Shapiro" has always referred to both the duo, as well as the enigmatic anonymous singer whose real name is something else. But "Sally" is also a third entity: the fictional character singing about her love stories. It's now been 18 years since Sally Shapiro's debut album Disco Romance, that took influences from italo disco and indie pop with a naive and youthful flavor, as if everything "Sally" did was to "walk in the moonshine thinking about my love affairs", as she once put it.
Ready To Live A Lie may, however, be the duo's darkest album yet. The lyrics have shifted from the euphoria of first love to exploring "Sally's" struggles in long-term relationships—love triangles, boredom, resentment, and the lingering sense of loneliness.
Ready To Live A Lie is out on Italians Do It Better on May 30th and includes the duo’s acclaimed Pet Shop Boys cover Rent.
Taking inspiration from synthwave, italo disco, nudisco, indie pop and bossanova, the album becomes their fifth studio album & their second for Italians Do It Better - again mixed together with label founder Johnny Jewel (Chromatics, Glass Candy, Desire).
Sally Shapiro's forthcoming album 'Ready To Live A Lie' is now available for preorder on vinyl 2LP (pink vinyl or transparent electric blue vinyl), CD and digital from their Bandcamp page.
Pre-order album: https://sallyshapiro.bandcamp.com/album/ready-to-live-a-lie
Pre-save album: https://idib.ffm.to/readytolivealie
Ready To Live A Lie artwork:
Ready To Live A Lie tracklist:
1. The Other Days (YouTube)
2. Hard To Love
3. Rent
4. Purple Colored Sky
5. Happier Somewhere Else
6. Guarding Shell
7. Hospital
8. Did You Call Tonight
9. Oh Carrie
10. He's Not You
11. Rain
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