| Ready to Live a Lie | ||||
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| Released | 30 May 2025 | |||
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| Length | 49:53 | |||
| Label | Italians Do It Better | |||
| Producer | Johan Agebjörn | |||
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Ready to Live a Lie is the fifth studio album by Swedish synthpop duo Sally Shapiro. [2] It was released on 30 May 2025, via Italians Do It Better. [3]
Released three years after the duo's Sad Cities in 2022, Ready to Live a Lie is their second release on Italians Do It Better. [2] [4]
The album was mixed by the label's co-founder, Johnny Jewel, and Agebjörn of the duo. [5] Described as "the duo's darkest album yet", [6] it centers on the duo's vocalist, also known by the same name, and her struggle with personal issues involving relationship and loneliness. [6]
"The Other Days" was released as a single on 11 March 2025. [3] [2] It was followed by "Did You Call Tonight", the second single, on 1 May 2025. [7]
God Is in the TV Zine scored the album eight out of ten and called it "another Sally Shapiro release that is totally worthy of three quarters of an hour of anyone’s time." [8]
Paste remarked, "Compared to their previous albums, though, Ready to Live a Lie is more explicitly about how Sally—again: the character, not the vocalist—has been hurt and the lies she's endured, or told herself in order to soldier on," rating it 7.6 out of ten. [9]
MusicOMH gave the album a rating of three and a half stars, stating "Ready To Live a Lie may sound almost gossamer light at times, but there are enough moments on it to provide a melancholic soundtrack to the summer." [10]
Beats Per Minute assigned it a score of sixty-nine percent, referring to it as "a reluctant but delicate embrace of sadness and heartache." [11]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Beats Per Minute | 69% [11] |
| MusicOMH |    [10] |
| Paste | 7.6/10 [9] |
| God Is in the TV | 8/10 [8] |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Other Days" |
| 4:12 |
| 2. | "Hard to Love" |
| 4:51 |
| 3. | "Rent" | 5:37 | |
| 4. | "Purple Colored Sky" | Agebjörn | 4:48 |
| 5. | "Happier Somewhere Else" | Agebjörn | 3:46 |
| 6. | "Guarding Shell" | Agebjörn | 5:20 |
| 7. | "Hospital" | Gunnarsson | 3:03 |
| 8. | "Did You Call Tonight" |
| 4:40 |
| 9. | "Oh Carrie" |
| 3:21 |
| 10. | "He's Not You" |
| 4:13 |
| 11. | "Rain" |
| 5:02 |
| Total length: | 49:53 | ||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12. | "Casablanca Nights" |
| 4:01 |
| 13. | "Le Noir Et Le Blanc Sur Le Piano" |
| 4:11 |
| 14. | "Forget About You" (Johnny Jewel's Amnesia Rework) |
| 4:21 |
| 15. | "The Best Thing" | Austin Garrick | 3:50 |
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. [1]
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