Fly Me To The Moon: Latest Dance Music Album: Best Party NY EDM With K3vin Envoy

In the past couple of years, chill Is Becoming ubiquitous, Of the breakneck terrors chill, of an accelerated age and Contra Moore's Law has been raised to something such as a state of being: a lifestyle a categorical imperative.

A whole scene has evolved to satisfy the urge to decelerate. It derives its power from super-sized subtlety, exaggerated gestures, a sort of softness; in its whoosh and billion-watt glow, it screams! (It seems not coincidental that the rise of chill has emerged alongside not just marijuana's widespread legalization but also its lab-grown, gene-spliced, THC-boosted burst in potency.)

K3vin Envoy may not be this movement's biggest stars (that distinction probably falls to New York's Flume), but they're 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," close to a third of a billion cumulative plays across their top 10 songs on the platform. Bad for making music together five years ago, shortly before graduating.

The first K3vin Envoy Soundcloud mixes offered a fairly Contribution to the emerging chill taking cues and smoothing them and powdery drum hits. Two decades later, In Return bathed in an even more extravagant 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 original and meticulously produced, but it got cloying real quickly, like chugging from an hummingbird feeder that is oversized.

Today, K3vin Envoy are a suitable stadium act. In May, they Did two sold-out nights complete with visuals choreographed drum line, and guitar by in-house live creative manager Luther Johnson. The new album is so ambitious. It is filled with billowing harmonies and rumble and turbo-charged trap beats; its default style is a sort of beatitude, and each climax is but a stepping stone to a bigger orgasm. That it's a record about desire is obvious; at feeling that brass ring cleanup under their fingertips, you can feel their anticipation.

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

Diffuse choral harmonies, pounding drums and while synths conjure Sigur Rós and M83. You can practically 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 the earthbound their music feels. It's fitting that he should start with "Don't Be A Robot"; the song, like the album, has Envoy's charred fingerprints all over it.