Thanks to a string of daring and danceable remixes, edits, and EPs, Nicolas Jaar was already well known in the world of electronic music by age 18. But it was the Chilean American producer’s debut full-length—2011’s Space Is Only Noise—that established him as a rising superstar proficient in both club bangers and ambitious composition. Jaar’s recent follow-up, Sirens, is murky, melodic, and unnervingly intimate, with as much attention paid to the space between sounds as the sounds themselves. A taut post-punk vibe courses throughout Sirens—clanks and clunks sit next to slippery bass lines, while distorted synths bob and weave within staticky silence. Jaar is a master of atmosphere, the kind of restless creative who couldn’t stop pushing and pulling on the boundaries of electronic music if he tried. BEN SALMON