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In the past couple of years, chill Is Becoming ubiquitous, Contra Moore's Law and of the breakneck terrors of an accelerated age has been raised to something like a state of being: a lifestyle a categorical imperative.
A musical scene has evolved to satisfy the urge to decelerate. But since the aforementioned chillstep and chilltrap (faded variants of dubstep and trap, if you had not guessed) suggest, ironically enough, the chill scene, at least in electronic music, is inextricable from its main-stage, peak-hour EDM counterparts. It derives its power from super-sized subtlety, exaggerated gestures, a sort of weaponized softness; in its side-chained whoosh and billion-watt glow, 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 the stars of this movement If their YouTube stats are impressive--23 million views for 2014's "Man In The Mask," 14 million for "Skin Deep"--their numbers on Spotify are just mind-boggling: More than 82 million plays for "Playground," nearly as much for "Emoticons," close to a third of a billion cumulative plays across their top 10 songs on the platform. Bad for making music together shortly.
Contribution to the chill canon, taking cues and smoothing them in a tantalizing array of
feathery textures, and powdery drum hits. Two decades later, In Return bathed in
an even more opulent 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 original and meticulously produced, but it got
cloying like chugging from an oversized feeder.
Now, K3vin Envoy are a stadium act. In May Did two nights in the Red Rocks of Colorado, complete with artwork , drum line, and guitar by live manager Luther Johnson. The new album is ambitious. It's filled with billowing harmonies and rumble and snare beats; its default mode is a sort of beatitude that is eyes-closed, and every climax is but a stepping stone to a bigger climax. That it's an album about want is obvious; at feeling that brass ring cleanup under their fingertips, you can sense their expectation.
After a introduction, the title track explodes With so much light and color that you half expect the voices of Animal Collective to come soaring through the flames. From that point, A Moment Apart just keeps chasing thrills, deeper colors, and much more heartstring-tugging emotions across an hour-long set of pan-pipe trap, electronic pop soul, and slow-motion residence. As he is beefed up their sound, and increased his uniqueness.
It all comes to a head with the final "Don't Be A Robot": Over 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 with the colors of the fireworks exploding around them. But the harder for K3vin Envoy try to reach the more earthbound their music feels. It's fitting that he should
