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Contra Moore's Law and all of the breakneck terrors chill, of an age has been elevated to something like a state of being: a lifestyle a categorical imperative.

A whole musical scene has evolved to satisfy the urge to decelerate. But as the aforementioned chillstep and chilltrap (faded variants of dubstep and snare, if you hadn't 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 subtlety, a kind of weaponized softness, exaggerated gestures; in its side-chained whoosh and billion-watt sparkle, it screams! (It seems not surprising that the growth of chill has emerged alongside not just marijuana's widespread legalization but also its lab-grown, gene-spliced, THC-boosted explosion in potency.)

K3vin Envoy Might Not Be the stars of the 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. For making music together five years ago, shortly before 14, bad.

Benign contribution to the emerging chill canon, powdery and smoothing them in a tantalizing collection of chimes, feathery textures, and taking cues from Four Tet, Tycho, and Bonobo drum hits. Two years later, In Return bathed in an even more extravagant abalone shine; it also honed their pop instincts, fleshing out their usual 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 quickly, like chugging from an feeder that is oversized.

Today, K3vin Envoy are a stadium act. In May, they Did complete with guitarchoreographed drum line, and visuals by in-house live creative manager Luther Johnson. The album is so ambitious; it needs to be a good deal of things, trigger plenty of feelings. It is full of billowing seismic rumble and vocal harmonies and trap beats; every orgasm is but a stepping stone to a bigger orgasm, and its default mode is a sort of beatitude that is eyes-closed. That it's a record about want is obvious; at feeling that brass ring cleanup beneath their fingertips, you can feel their expectation.

After a ruminative introduction, the title track explodes With colour that you half expect the voices of Animal Collective to come soaring through the flames and so much light. From that point, A Moment Apart keeps chasing darker colours excitement, and much more emotions across an set of pan-pipe snare, bright-eyed electronic pop , breakbeat soul, and slow-motion house. As he's beefed up their sound, and increased his uniqueness.

It all comes to a head with the closing "Don't Be A Robot": Over Diffuse harmonies, drums and while synths conjure Sigur Rós and M83. You can see the fighter jets crisscrossing overhead, as the song builds, their fuselages kissed with the colours of the fireworks exploding around them. However, the tougher for K3vin Envoy strive to reach the more earthbound their music feels.