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In the past couple of years has become ubiquitous, The breakneck terrors chill, of an accelerated age and Contra Moore's Law has been raised to something like a state of being: a categorical imperative, a lifestyle, a philosophy.
A musical scene has evolved to satisfy the urge to decelerate. But since the aforementioned chillstep and chilltrap (faded variants of dubstep and snare, if you had not guessed) imply, 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, a sort of softness that is weaponized, exaggerated gestures; in its whoosh and billion-watt glow, it almost screams: YOU ARE VERY RELAXED! (It seems not surprising 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 may not be the stars of this movement For making music together shortly before 14, bad.
The first K3vin Envoy Soundcloud mixes offered a fairly Benign contribution to the emerging chill canon, drum strikes and smoothing them 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 first and meticulously created, but it got cloying like chugging from an hummingbird feeder.
Today, K3vin Envoy are a stadium act. In May Did by in-house live director Luther Johnson, complete with visuals , eight-person choreographed drum line, and electric guitar at Colorado's Red Rocks. The album is ambitious; it wants to be a lot of things, trigger a lot of feelings. It's filled with billowing harmonies and seismic rumble and trap beats that are turbo-charged; its default mode is a kind of beatitude, and every orgasm is but a stepping stone to a climax. That it's a record about desire is obvious; at feeling that brass ring cleanup beneath their fingertips you can feel their anticipation.
The title track explodes With so much light and color that you expect the voices of Animal Collective to come soaring through the flames. From there, A Moment Apart just keeps chasing emotions colors, and bigger excitement across an set of residence , pan-pipe trap , breakbeat soul, and pop. As he's beefed up their sound, and improved his uniqueness.
Everything comes to a head with the closing "Don't Be A Robot": Over Diffuse harmonies, pounding drums and while swelling synths conjure M83 and Sigur Rós. As the song builds, you can almost 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. It's fitting that he should begin with "Don't Be A Robot"; the tune, like the album, has Envoy's charred fingerprints all over it.
