Hassle-Free Returns Sirs [V5] SIRS Cuts EP 5 Sire vinyl record

4 Tracks Of Pumpin House, Nu-disco & Soulful Grooves – SIRS kicks things into fifth gear for the latest SIRS Cuts EP with four more, full power, fist pumpers form the disco stratosphere that join the dots between Italo disco, synth pop and AOR-leaning Balearic loveliness.
On his first outing of 2022, Daniel Klein AKA SIRS has delivered another rock-solid volume in the ‘Sirs Cuts’ series, which since 2020 has provided an outlet for his floor-focused re-edits. There’s naturally plenty to get the blood pumping and the juices flowing, starting with the hybrid Italo-disco/AOR disco chug of ‘Maybe No’, where eyes-closed, poodle perm-sporting vocals, fuzzy guitar licks and surging strings rise above a sequenced bassline, rubbery bass guitar and locked-in beats. He next tweaks a chunk of glassy-eyed, cosmic rock-era German synth-pop before tastefully reworking a vaguely Balearic gem of early ’80s blue-eyed soul. Finally, Klein fiddles around with some more AOR disco, complete with play-it-with-feeling guitar solos (‘Tennis’).