Ready to Live a Lie

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]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Beats Per Minute	69%[11]
MusicOMH	[10]
Paste	7.6/10[9]
God Is in the TV	8/10[8]