Sally Shapiro - My Guilty Pleasure (2009)

Sally Shapiro, the Swede who does this thin electropop with certain melancholy air but who still does not enjoy not half of the popularity that your compatriot Robyn has, returns this year with the second LP after all the remixes have thrown Disc Romance (2007) and others.

The new album goes for name My Guilty Pleasure and it will be thrown by Paper Bag Record next August 25. To the disc it is anticipated by the exit of the single “Miracle“ on June 16, although it is already possible to listen from Pitchfork or straight in your MySpace.

After charming blog boys (and girls?) with her icy-hot brand of dance-pop on 2006's Disco Romance, nonplussed Swedish disco princess Sally Shapiro is readying her official follow-up, My Guilty Pleasure, for release August 25 via Paper Bag.

Produced by Shapiro's right hand man Johan Agebjörn, Guilty Pleasure also includes contributions from Cloetta Paris and Tensnake. The single "Miracle hits North American stores June 16, backed by a remix by Bogdan Irkük. The song is currently streaming on this very website.

In a press release, the notoriously shy chanteuse said the new album will "hopefully make you fall in love with the person sitting next to you on the bus." Creepy, Reader's Digest-reading old guy in the back, this is your lucky day.

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Sally Shapiro - Love in July (2009)

Swedish Italo-disco queen Sally Shapiro has a digital release

1. Sally Shapiro - Love In July (Original Mix) (3:46)
2. Sally Shapiro - Love In July (Parker Lewis Remix) (6:33)
3. Sally Shapiro - Love In July (Le Prix Remix) (6:06)
4. Sally Shapiro - Love In July (Cfcf Remix) (3:56)
5. Sally Shapiro - Love In July (Bostro Pesopeo Remix) (6:49)
6. Sally Shapiro - Love In July (Instrumental Mix) (3:46)


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Sally Shapiro - Miracle (2009)

In a sense, Sally Shapiro is both the recording pseudonym of an anonymous Swedish singer and also the name of the duo, consisting of that singer and producer/writer Johan Agebjörn, who are together responsible for the music released under the moniker “Sally Shapiro.” That music, combining Shapiro’s delicate, silvery vocals with Agebjörn’s vintage-styled synthesizer dance tracks, is a deliberate and meticulous replication of the sound of 1980s Italo disco, as well as a distillation of the melancholy yet hopeful sentimentality commonly associated with twee indie pop.

The pair first met in 2001, working in an office together, but it wasn’t until Christmas 2004 that Agebjörn, a lifelong Italo disco lover, noticed Shapiro’s voice while they were singing carols at his piano. He told her she would make an excellent Italo-style singer, and as luck would have it she turned out to be a fan of the genre as well. Shapiro agreed to record vocals for a tune Agebjörn had penned in the style of Valerie Dore and Katy Gray (similarly pseudonymous singers who were backed by obscured writing/production teams), although when they finally got around to it in early 2006, she was so shy that Agebjörn had to leave the room while she sang her part. The resulting track, “I’ll Be by Your Side,” was almost instantaneously hailed as a modern classic on online disco forums; it was given a vinyl release on the Austrian label Diskokaine that July and was soon championed in such outlets as Pitchfork Media, Vice magazine, and The Village Voice.

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