May 06, 2009

My Guilty Pleasure, the follow-up to Sally Shapiro’s Disco Romance, is out in late summer/early fall. And what a way to come back. First single “Miracle,” written and produced by Johan Agebjörn and Roger Gunnarsson, is out officially via Paper Bag Records on June 16 but you can hear Sally’s synth thunderstorm now. It starts with a diaristic spoken word in French before a thunderclap and then comes the rain. Beautiful stuff. Shapiro’s still got that Italo disco sound. According to her official site, Sally’s main songwriting partner, Johan Agebjörn, is keeping busy with various solo DJ gigs on the weekends. Under the Radar featured Shapiro in our Winter issue’s Most Anticipated Albums of ‘09 section. My Guilty Pleasure was under a working title then but it seems the duo’s hard work is starting to coalesce into a very dreamy project.