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The album received strong reviews, and Shapiro has recently been championed by many prominent music blogs including Pitchfork Media.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisco Romance was released in North America October 16, 2007 on Canadian based indie label Paper Bag Records. It is a 10 song album featuring artwork by Canadian designer, Geoff Wilson.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShapiro is notable for shunning publicity and has never revealed her real name. However, in an interview with Swedish webzine Judy in September 2007, she talked for the first time about considering performing live.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Spring 2008, Sally Shapiro went on a short DJ Tour, but on a February 2009 post on Sally Shapiro's MySpace Blog, Agebjörn stated that Sally would not perform again:\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn April 15, 2008, Sally Shapiro's remix album Remix Romance Vol. 1 was released worldwide by Paper Bag Records. Some of the names on this remix album are Junior Boys, Jon Brooks, Lindstrøm, Holy Fuck and Juan Maclean.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuickly following Vol. 1, Remix Romance Vol. 2 was released on June 17, 2008. It contains remixes by Dntel, The Russian Futurists, Solvent and Alexander Robotnick. This volume is only available as a download, for now.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSally Shapiro's single, Miracle, was released on June 16, 2009. It is similar in style to previous Shapiro singles.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir second studio album, My Guilty Pleasure, was released in September 2009. 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