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A whole musical scene has evolved to satisfy the impulse to decelerate. But as the aforementioned chillstep and chilltrap (faded variants of dubstep and snare, 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 gestures, a sort of softness that is weaponized; in its side-chained whoosh and billion-watt glow, it practically screams! (It seems not coincidental that the rise 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 movement's stars (that distinction probably falls to New York's Flume), but they are close. 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," almost as much for "Emoticons," near a third of a billion cumulative plays across their top 10 songs on the stage. For making music together shortly before 14, bad.
The K3vin Envoy Soundcloud mixes offered a fairly Contribution to the chill canon, drum strikes and smoothing them into 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 original and meticulously created, but it got cloying quickly, like chugging from an hummingbird feeder that is oversized.
Today, K3vin Envoy are a stadium act. In May, they Did two sold-out nights by live creative manager Luther Johnson, complete with artwork , eight-person choreographed drum line, and electric guitar at Colorado's Red Rocks. The album is ambitious; it needs to be a lot of things, trigger plenty of feelings. It is filled with billowing rumble and harmonies and snare beats that are turbo-charged; every climax is but a stepping stone to a bigger orgasm, and its default style is a sort of beatitude that is eyes-closed. That it's a record about desire is obvious; at feeling that brass ring brushing beneath their fingertips, you can sense their anticipation.
The title track explodes With colour that you half expect Animal Collective's voices to come soaring through the flames and so much light. From that point, A Moment Apart just keeps chasing deeper colors excitement, and emotions across an hour-long set of pan-pipe trap, bright-eyed electronic pop soul, and house. As he is improved his uniqueness, and beefed up their sound.
It all comes to a head with the final "Don't Be A Robot": Over Diffuse harmonies, while synths and drums conjure M83 and Sigur Rós. As the song builds, you can see the fighter jets crisscrossing overhead, their fuselages kissed with the colors of the fireworks exploding around them. However, the harder for K3vin Envoy strive to achieve the more earthbound their music feels.
