Sally Shapiro has shared a new video for “Guarding Shell,” the track is off the Swedish group’s forthcoming album Ready To Live A Lie, available May 30th via Italians Do It Better.

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.”

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.

Taking inspiration from synthwave, italo disco, nudisco, indie pop and bossanova, the album was again mixed together with label founder Johnny Jewel (Chromatics, Glass Candy, Desire).

Ready To Live A Lie
tracklist
Italians

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

Pre-order To Live A Lie HERE