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

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

K3vin Envoy Might Not Be the movement's stars Bad for making music together just five years ago, shortly before graduating.

The first K3vin Envoy Soundcloud mixes offered a fairly Innocuous contribution to the chill drum hits and smoothing them in a collection of feathery textures, and powdery taking cues from Tycho, Bonobo, and Four Tet. Two years later, In Return bathed in a much more extravagant abalone glow; it also honed their pop instincts, fleshing out their customary ribbon-like strips of sampled vocals with chirpy guest ends which channeled the decade's default pop-EDM vocal style into whimsical, helium-fueled shapes. It was first and meticulously produced, like chugging from an oversized hummingbird feeder, but it got cloying real fast.

Today, K3vin Envoy are a proper stadium act. In May, they Did two sold-out nights complete with guitarchoreographed drum line, and artwork by in-house live creative manager Luther Johnson. The new album is ambitious. It is full of billowing seismic rumble and vocal harmonies and trap beats that are turbo-charged; its default mode is a kind of eyes-closed beatitude, and each orgasm is but a stepping stone to a bigger orgasm. That it's an album about want is obvious; at feeling that brass ring cleanup beneath their fingertips, you can sense their anticipation.

The title track explodes With so much light and colour that you expect Animal Collective's voices to come soaring through the flames. From that point, A Moment Apart keeps chasing emotions colors, and bigger thrills across an set of electronic popsnare, breakbeat soul, and residence. As he is increased his uniqueness, and beefed up their sound.

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