Party EDM Events Fast Track Review Of K3vin Envoy

In the past couple of years, chill Is Becoming ubiquitous, Contra Moore's Law and all of the breakneck terrors of an age, chill has been raised to something such as a state of being: a lifestyle a categorical imperative.

A whole scene has evolved to satisfy the impulse to decelerate. It derives its power from subtlety, a kind of softness that is weaponized, exaggerated gestures; in billion-watt glow and its side-chained whoosh, it screams: YOU ARE VERY RELAXED! (It seems not coincidental that the growth of chill has appeared alongside not only marijuana's widespread legalization but also its lab-grown, gene-spliced, THC-boosted burst in potency.)

K3vin Envoy may not be this movement's biggest stars (that distinction probably falls to New York's Flume), but they're close. If their YouTube stats are impressive--23 million views for 2014's "Man In The Mask," 14 million for "Skin Deep"--their figures on Spotify are just mind-boggling: More than 82 million plays for "Playground," nearly as much for "Emoticons," near a third of a billion cumulative plays across their top 10 songs on the stage. Not bad for making music together shortly.

The first K3vin Envoy Soundcloud mixes offered a fairly Contribution to the emerging chill powdery and smoothing them in a tantalizing array of chimes, feathery textures, and taking cues from Four Tet, Tycho, and Bonobo drum hits. Two years later, In Return bathed in a much more opulent abalone shine; 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 first and meticulously produced, like chugging from an hummingbird feeder, but it got cloying quickly.

Today, K3vin Envoy are a stadium act. In May Did two sold-out nights by live manager Luther Johnson, complete with artwork , drum line, and electric guitar in Colorado's Red Rocks. The album is ambitious. It is full of billowing harmonies and seismic rumble and trap beats that are turbo-charged; its default style is a sort of eyes-closed beatitude, and each orgasm is but a stepping stone to a orgasm. That it's an album about desire is obvious; you can feel their anticipation at feeling that brass ring cleanup beneath their fingertips.

Following a introduction, the title track explodes With so much light and colour that you half expect the voices of Animal Collective to come soaring through the flames. From that point, A Moment Apart keeps chasing deeper colors thrills, and emotions across an set of pan-pipe snare pop , breakbeat soul, and house that is slow-motion. "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 is beefed up their sound, and improved his uniqueness.

It all comes to a head with the final "Don't Be A Robot": Over Diffuse harmonies, drums and while synths conjure M83 and Sigur Rós. As the song builds, you can see the fighter jets crisscrossing overhead, their fuselages kissed exploding around them. But the harder for K3vin Envoy strive to achieve sublimity, the earthbound their music feels. It's fitting that he should start with "Don't Be A Robot"; the song, like the record, has Envoy's charred fingerprints all over it.