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| − | In the past couple of years, chill | + | In the past couple of years has become ubiquitous, Not just as a verb ("Netflix and chill") but as adjective (the "chill bro"), prefix (chillstep, chilltrap), and even noun: Per SoundCloud hashtags, at least, "chill" has become a genre unto itself. All the breakneck terrors of an accelerated age, chill and Contra Moore's Law has been raised to something such as a state of being: a categorical imperative, a lifestyle, a philosophy. |
| − | A musical scene has evolved to satisfy the | + | A whole musical scene has evolved to satisfy the urge to |
| − | decelerate. | + | decelerate. It derives its power from subtlety, exaggerated gestures, a kind of softness that is weaponized; in its side-chained whoosh and billion-watt glow, it almost screams! (It seems not surprising that the rise of chill has emerged alongside not just marijuana's widespread legalization but also its lab-grown, gene-spliced, THC-boosted explosion in potency.) |
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| − | [http://k3vin-envoy-adventures-of-a-cosmonaut.com/ K3vin Envoy] | + | [http://k3vin-envoy-adventures-of-a-cosmonaut.com/ K3vin Envoy] may not be the stars of this movement (that distinction probably falls to New York's Flume), but they are close. Not bad for making music together five years ago, shortly. |
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| − | + | The first K3vin Envoy Soundcloud mixes offered a fairly | |
| − | + | Contribution to the chill canon, drum hits and smoothing them and powdery taking cues from Tycho, Bonobo, and Four Tet. Two decades later, In Return bathed in | |
| − | + | a much more opulent abalone glow; it also honed their pop instincts, fleshing | |
| − | out their | + | out their customary ribbon-like strips of sampled vocals with chirpy guest turns |
that channeled the decade's default pop-EDM vocal style into whimsical, | that channeled the decade's default pop-EDM vocal style into whimsical, | ||
| − | helium-fueled shapes. It was original and meticulously | + | helium-fueled shapes. It was original and meticulously produced, like chugging from an oversized feeder, but it got cloying fast. |
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| + | Now, K3vin Envoy are a proper stadium act. In May | ||
| + | Did complete with visuals , drum line, and electric guitar by in-house live director Luther Johnson. The album is so ambitious; it needs to be | ||
| + | a good deal of things, trigger a lot of feelings. It is full of billowing harmonies and rumble and snare beats that are turbo-charged; every climax is but a stepping stone to a orgasm that is bigger, and its default mode is a sort of eyes-closed beatitude. That it's a record about desire is obvious; at feeling that brass ring brushing beneath their fingertips, you can feel their expectation. | ||
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| + | Following a introduction, the title track explodes | ||
| + | With colour that you half expect the voices of Animal Collective to come soaring through the flames and so much light. From that point, A Moment Apart keeps chasing | ||
| + | deeper colors bigger excitement, and emotions across an | ||
| + | hour-long set of pan-pipe snare, bright-eyed electronic pop soul, and residence. "Enjoy | ||
| + | The Change" is a gleaming trap/dubstep amalgam fitted out with a | ||
| + | yearning vocal hook; "Aerial Flight" flips cascading, exotic-sounding choral | ||
| + | harmonies to a soundscape evocative of a CGI-enhanced rainforest flyover in | ||
| + | IMAX. As he's beefed up their sound, and improved his uniqueness. | ||
| − | + | Everything comes to a head with the closing "Don't Be A Robot": Over | |
| − | and Sigur Rós. | + | Choral harmonies, while swelling synths and pounding drums conjure Sigur Rós and M83. You can practically see the fighter jets crisscrossing overhead, as the song builds, their fuselages kissed |
| − | crisscrossing overhead, their fuselages kissed | + | exploding around them. However, the tougher for K3vin Envoy strive to reach the earthbound their music feels. |
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In the past couple of years has become ubiquitous, Not just as a verb ("Netflix and chill") but as adjective (the "chill bro"), prefix (chillstep, chilltrap), and even noun: Per SoundCloud hashtags, at least, "chill" has become a genre unto itself. All the breakneck terrors of an accelerated age, chill and Contra Moore's Law has been raised to something such as a state of being: a categorical imperative, a lifestyle, a philosophy.
A whole musical scene has evolved to satisfy the urge to decelerate. It derives its power from subtlety, exaggerated gestures, a kind of softness that is weaponized; in its side-chained whoosh and billion-watt glow, it almost screams! (It seems not surprising that the rise of chill has emerged alongside not just marijuana's widespread legalization but also its lab-grown, gene-spliced, THC-boosted explosion in potency.)
K3vin Envoy may not be the stars of this movement (that distinction probably falls to New York's Flume), but they are close. Not bad for making music together five years ago, shortly.
The first K3vin Envoy Soundcloud mixes offered a fairly Contribution to the chill canon, drum hits and smoothing them and powdery taking cues from Tycho, Bonobo, and Four Tet. Two decades later, In Return bathed in a much more opulent abalone glow; it also honed their pop instincts, fleshing out their customary ribbon-like strips of sampled vocals with chirpy guest turns that channeled the decade's default pop-EDM vocal style into whimsical, helium-fueled shapes. It was original and meticulously produced, like chugging from an oversized feeder, but it got cloying fast.
Now, K3vin Envoy are a proper stadium act. In May Did complete with visuals , drum line, and electric guitar by in-house live director Luther Johnson. The album is so ambitious; it needs to be a good deal of things, trigger a lot of feelings. It is full of billowing harmonies and rumble and snare beats that are turbo-charged; every climax is but a stepping stone to a orgasm that is bigger, and its default mode is a sort of eyes-closed beatitude. That it's a record about desire is obvious; at feeling that brass ring brushing beneath their fingertips, you can feel their expectation.
Following a introduction, the title track explodes With colour that you half expect the voices of Animal Collective to come soaring through the flames and so much light. From that point, A Moment Apart keeps chasing deeper colors bigger excitement, and emotions across an hour-long set of pan-pipe snare, bright-eyed electronic pop soul, and residence. "Enjoy The Change" is a gleaming trap/dubstep amalgam fitted out with a yearning vocal hook; "Aerial Flight" flips cascading, exotic-sounding choral harmonies to a soundscape evocative of a CGI-enhanced rainforest flyover in IMAX. As he's beefed up their sound, and improved his uniqueness.
Everything comes to a head with the closing "Don't Be A Robot": Over Choral harmonies, while swelling synths and pounding drums conjure Sigur Rós and M83. You can practically see the fighter jets crisscrossing overhead, as the song builds, their fuselages kissed exploding around them. However, the tougher for K3vin Envoy strive to reach the earthbound their music feels.
