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In the past couple of years Is Becoming 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 the least, "chill" has become a genre unto itself. Of the breakneck terrors of an age, chill and Contra Moore's Law has been elevated to something like a state of being: a lifestyle, a philosophy, a categorical imperative.

A whole scene has evolved to satisfy the impulse to decelerate. It derives its power from super-sized subtlety, a sort of softness that is weaponized, exaggerated gestures; in its 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 explosion in potency.)

K3vin Envoy Might Not Be the biggest stars of the movement For making music together shortly before 14, not bad.

The K3vin Envoy Soundcloud mixes offered a fairly Benign contribution to the chill powdery and smoothing them and taking cues from Four Tet, Tycho, and Bonobo drum strikes. 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 created, but it got cloying like chugging from an hummingbird feeder.

Today, K3vin Envoy are a stadium act. In May, they Did two sold-out nights complete with electric guitarchoreographed drum line, and artwork by in-house live creative director Luther Johnson. The album is ambitious; it needs to be a lot of things, trigger plenty of feelings. It's full of billowing seismic rumble and harmonies and trap beats that are turbo-charged; each climax is but a stepping stone to a bigger climax, and its default style is a sort of beatitude. That it's an album about want is obvious; at feeling that brass ring brushing beneath their fingertips, you can sense their anticipation.

The title track explodes With colour that you expect Animal Collective's voices to come soaring through the flames and so much light. From that point, A Moment Apart just keeps chasing darker colours, excitement, and more heartstring-tugging emotions across an set of house trap , breakbeat soul, and pop. "Enjoy The Change" is a glistening 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 increased his uniqueness.

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