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In the past couple of years, chill Is Becoming ubiquitous, Contra Moore's Law and all the breakneck terrors of an accelerated age, chill has been raised to something such as 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 side-chained whoosh and billion-watt glow, it screams! (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 may not be the biggest 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 figures on Spotify are just mind-boggling: More than 82 million plays for "Playground," nearly as much for "Emoticons," near a third of a billion cumulative plays across their top 10 songs on the stage. Bad for making music together five years ago, shortly before graduating.
The K3vin Envoy Soundcloud mixes offered a fairly Benign contribution to the emerging chill powdery and smoothing them in a tantalizing array of chimes, feathery textures, and taking cues from Four Tet, Tycho, and Bonobo drum hits. 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 ends which channeled the decade's default pop-EDM vocal style into whimsical, helium-fueled shapes. It was first and meticulously produced, like chugging from an hummingbird feeder, but it got cloying real quickly.
Today, K3vin Envoy are a stadium act. In May Did two nights by live manager Luther Johnson, complete with visuals , drum line, and electric guitar in Colorado's Red Rocks. The new album is ambitious; it wants to be a good deal of things, trigger plenty of feelings. It is filled with billowing vocal harmonies and seismic rumble and snare beats that are turbo-charged; its default mode is a sort of beatitude, and each climax is but a stepping stone to a orgasm. That it's an album about desire is obvious; you can feel their expectation.
After a ruminative introduction, the title track explodes With so much light and colour that you half expect the voices of Animal Collective to come soaring through the flames. From there, A Moment Apart keeps chasing deeper colors excitement, and emotions across an hour-long set of pan-pipe trap pop , breakbeat soul, and residence that is slow-motion. "Enjoy The Change" is a gleaming 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.
It all comes to a head with the final "Don't Be A Robot": Over Diffuse harmonies, while synths and pounding drums 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 strive to achieve sublimity, the 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
