Sally Shapiro's sophomore full-length is called My Guilty Pleasure, a rather snooty term that implies that something can be quite likeable yet embarrassingly unhip. But really, is there something wrong with enjoying an infectious yet somewhat superficial piece of musical ephemera?

Sally Shapiro, an electro-pop collaboration between the semi-sweet mystery vocalist who dons the Anglophone pseudonym and her pop-perfect producer Johan Agebjörn, coyly says no. The low-profile duo churns out easygoing yet striking records you don't have to hide from tastemaker friends. Without the glitz or glamour of its Top 40 counterparts, Guilty embodies italo disco's simplistic, glossy sounds. It's a collection of simple love- and loss-themed pieces, only the record takes a future-retro turn, adding a somber electrojazz zest to its lost-in-space sound.

Harkening back to her dreamy debut, Disco Romance, Shapiro's pop nuggets, albeit slammed with prefabbed beats and speedy synths, aren't dancefloor fodder. Rather, My Guilty Pleasure is an amalgam of wintry nostalgia ("My Fantasy") and cool midsummer lullabies ("Love In July"). By the time the high from "Miracle" 's club-closing bombast wears off the album—which is too short with only nine tracks—is over.

Tracklist for My Guilty Pleasure:
01. Swimming Through The Blue Lagoon
02. Looking At The Stars
03. Love In July
04. My Fantasy
05. Let It Show
06. Moonlight Dance
07. Save Your Love
08. Dying In Africa
09. Miracle

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