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Sally Shapiro's music is heavily influenced by 80s italo disco. The project also includes the composer and producer Johan Agebjörn, both live in Gothenburg, Sweden. Their debut maxi-single "I'll Be By Your Side" was released on the Austrian Diskokaine label in the summer of 2006, and was later followed up by the album “Disco Romance” and the maxi-single "Anorak Christmas".
The release of Disco Romance was met with overwhelming praise, earning an 8.5/10 and “Best New Music” at Pitchforkmedia in early 2007 (and #32 in their top 50 albums of 2007 chart), a number 11 position in the iTunes US electronic charts and numerous featured interviews in publications such as Vice and XLR8R magazine’s with the reserved and ambiguous Shapiro. Among others enthusiasts were the Village Voice and The San Francisco Bay Guardian, who claimed, “Fans of St. Etienne and Annie should run out and buy it before they've finished reading this sentence. (It’s an) early contender for album of the year.” In October 2007, Canadian Paper Bag Records re-released Disco Romance in North America. The release was nominated as "electronic/dance album of the year" on U.S. Plug Awards, while Sally herself was nominated as "female artist of the year".
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