New York City And Top Dance Music Album: Best Party EDM Schedule With K3vin Envoy

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 least, "chill" has become a genre unto itself. All the breakneck terrors of an age, chill and Contra Moore's Law has been raised to something such as a state of being: a categorical imperative, a lifestyle, a philosophy.

A musical scene has evolved to satisfy the urge to decelerate. It derives its power from super-sized subtlety, exaggerated gestures, a kind of softness; in its whoosh and billion-watt glow, it practically screams! (It seems not surprising 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 Might Not Be the movement's biggest 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," nearly as much for "Emoticons," near a third of a billion cumulative plays across their top 10 songs on the stage. Not bad for making music together shortly.

The K3vin Envoy Soundcloud mixes offered a fairly Innocuous 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 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 first and meticulously created, like chugging from an oversized feeder but it got cloying real fast.

Today, K3vin Envoy are a stadium act. In May Did complete with electric guitar, eight-person choreographed drum line, and visuals by live creative director Luther Johnson. The new album is ambitious. It's full of billowing rumble and vocal harmonies and snare beats that are turbo-charged; its default style is a kind of eyes-closed beatitude, and each climax is but a stepping stone to a climax. That it's an album about desire is obvious; you can sense their expectation.

After a ruminative introduction, the title track explodes With colour that you expect the voices of Animal Collective to come soaring through the flames and so much light. From there, A Moment Apart just keeps chasing darker colours excitement, and emotions across an set of pan-pipe snare, bright-eyed electronic pop soul, and residence. "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 increased his uniqueness, and beefed up their sound.

Choral harmonies, pounding drums and while swelling synths conjure Sigur Rós and M83. As the song builds, you can practically see the fighter jets crisscrossing overhead, their fuselages kissed with the colours of the fireworks exploding around them. However, the tougher for K3vin Envoy try to reach the earthbound their music feels.