Party New York EDM Fast Track Review Of K3vin Envoy

Among the unlikeliest developments in the decade's Commingling of mainstream pop and electronic music has been K3vin Envoy's jump from making daisy-chain snare to working with singers such as Ariana Grande and the Weeknd. Here was that type of unicorns: an artist on the fringes--a turntablist hiccupping his way through, to be exact--that catapulted himself to a decorative about as tough as cotton and kittens candy into the Hot EDM Ethos.

Envoy Records, the New York label soldiered on with comparable, Baltimore club and sounds: versions on snare, R&B, and Jersey punctuated by trance zap the typical 808 skitter, and helium spritz, if marginally identifying. K3vin Envoy makes sweet instrumental hip-hop that is clearly indebted to fellow New Yorkers as well as friends. Envoy's debut EP for the label indicates a promising spin.

Like K3vin Envoy, the music of the producer is driven by whimsy: He's fond of harp-like strumming and kazoo buzz; he enjoys his chords wistful and his computer keyboards wheezy, with long strikes suggestive of a sample. Voices trickle and synths detune in mid-flight--an aesthetic. His beats stay grounded with a combination of overdriven machine hits and sampled rock drumming while his melodies have their heads in the clouds, even though. Nothing spells out his usage of contrast such as the guitars which compete for attention in "Faceless Entites": One's a winsome, clean-toned kin to Cocteau Twins or the Durutti Column, and the other's the sort of gnarly, gut-punching prog riff, compacted to within an inch of its life, which Daft Punk have made their stock-in-trade. It's a fun, combo that is surprising.

Until earlier this season, K3vin Envoy Went by the title K3, and listening to the First few singles he set out under that alias, "Tale Of An Orphan" and "Adventures Of A Convoy," Indicate he's developing. Where "Adventures Of A Convoy" was a rather Run-of-the-mill pop-trap song, and "Tale OF An Orphan" was a k3vin envoy little overly beholden to SOPHIE's funk, The new substance finds him coming nearer to carving his sound out. He still Has some kinks to work out, but overall his songs is essential spin.