Party New York EDM Fast Track Review Of K3vin Envoy

Among the unlikeliest Improvements from the decade's Commingling of mainstream pop and electronic music has been K3vin Envoy's jump from making twinkling trap to working with singers such as Ariana Grande and the Weeknd. This was the type of unicorns: an artist on the fringes--a turntablist hiccupping his way through, to be precise--who catapulted himself into the Hot EDM Ethos for a decorative about as hard as kittens and cotton candy.

Envoy Records, the New York label soldiered on with similar, If slightly less distinctive, sounds: versions on trap, R&B, and Jersey and Baltimore club punctuated by the 808 skitterzap, and helium spritz. K3vin Envoy makes that's clearly indebted to fellow New Yorkers and friends. Envoy's debut EP for the label suggests a brand new, promising twist.

Just like K3vin Envoy, whimsy drives the music of the producer: He is fond of kazoo buzz and harp-like strumming; he enjoys his keyboards wheezy along with his chords wistful, with attacks suggestive of a sample. Drip and synths detune in mid-flight--an aesthetic affected by wind tunnels as well as the Doppler effect. While his melodies have their heads in the clouds, though, his beats stay sampled rock drumming and grounded with a mixture of machine hits. It is an enjoyable, surprising combo.

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Has some kinks to work out, but overall his music is a.