Sirs - Arrived EP

After establishing is reputation as a nu-disco artist on the rise via a string of releases on his own Sirsounds imprint, Daniel Klein AKA SIRS has finally been snapped up by a long-established label. His first outing on German stable Live at Robert Johnson marks a new chapter in his career, though the music on offer is just as alluring as anything he’s released before. Opener ‘Keep Forgetting’ sets the tone, with waves of kaleidoscopic synthesizer sounds and picturesque electronics rising above a chunky, mid-tempo nu-disco groove, while ‘Junee’ sounds like an instrumental take on the Pet Shop Boys’ deeper and more loved-up moments from the late 1980s. He flips the script on closing cut ‘Call Me’, adding warming synth and electric piano sounds to a slipped hip-hop beat.