Artist: Sally Shapiro
Album: Sad Cities
Label: Italians Do It Better
Buy: Bandcamp

“With this single we have decided to call our musical project a day, and we would like to thank everyone who followed us on this journey.” So said Sally Shapiro, the duo comprised of Swedish producer Johan Agebjörn and the vocalist known by the Sally Shapiro pseudonym, when they released what was purported to be their final single “If You Ever Wanna Change Your Mind” back in the spring of 2016.

Fortunately for discerning music heads, the pair did indeed change their minds, opting to reunite last year to record their fourth studio album Sad Cities, officially released today. Eleven tracks deep, the album reinforces the duo’s proven penchant for exploring a multitude of sounds that straddle the convergence between various strains of electronic and pop. The group’s emotive and evocative songs may very well be best classified as music with an ever-beating heart and sympathetic soul—two things that we’re in desperate need of these days.

“It was only after we listened to the new album that we realised that something about our sound had changed,” Agebjörn explains in a recent Music Radar interview. “It does sound a bit different in terms of the production, for example, there are a lot more mid-tempo tracks. We didn’t want to do the same thing again, so it was important for us to make the album more varied but I‘m not sure whether that decision was a conscious one.”

Listen to Sad Cities below and let us know what you think of the album in the comments section below!

Note: As an Amazon affiliate partner, Albumism may earn commissions from products purchased via links featured on our site.

LISTEN: