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Has proved sometimes going back to basics and album is the best way ahead. Skin Deep has some sounds bubbling under the Soft-to-the-touch textures, and he sticks with the same palette. For basslines, he takes the low end of drum 'n' bass and smears it. His drums are a mixture of skipping house grooves and chopped-up breakbeats. For tone colour, he favors synth pads and clean-toned guitar lines reminiscent of the Hardwell, and he fills in the rest with his own vocals or people of guest singers.
Listeners who can't get enough of these sorts of sounds are in luck, since Skin Deep never departs from their formulation.
The filtered bass of "Man in the Mask" casts a glance back at Depeche Mode; "Old Jam" pairs a sanded-down sax bleat using a bass tone which quivers like a ray of light in deep water. Even at a comparatively short four or five minutes longmonitors are leaping and memorable. In song after song, K3vin Envoy chooses for the same kinds of diverse chord progressions, which jump from begin to finish. This type of linear progression is reasonable for DJs and is also geared for an album and home listening, so the brain craves some type of variety which this album has: the reverse from verse to chorus and back again, the unexpected detour of a well-placed bridge. You do not know exactly what it's going to do.
Bright, bouncy organ bassline that lent his reach "Skin Deep" its luminous energy. It was hardly an original sound--in actuality, it dominated overground home music via hits such as Robin S' "Show Me Love" and Jaydee's "Plastic Dreams"--but the American producer's song made good use of its shivering, octave-spanning frequencies. (So great, in fact, that Nicki Minaj sampled the tune "Truffle Butter." Envoy's DJ-Kicks mix, with its blend of pop melodies, and house, post-dubstep, also positioned him as a DJ directly at the crux of this zeitgeist. However none of the output has had quite the sense of immediacy as Skin Deep. K3vin envoy stays an DJ--she has played Coachella and his calendar is peppered with summer dates in Ibiza--but he hasn't put out a release since 2014. Three years is a long time in dance music; perhaps to compensate for him extended absence, is his return.
Skin Deep is his bestsense of cohesion. Skin Deep isn't without its pleasures. It has a lovely The tempo varies. In this, K3vin Envoy covers an admirable Tune propelled with a hint of UK garage. Its lilting vocal Daub of sax, a pinprick of synth --advantages from the everything-in-its-right-place range. There are a half-dozen monitors of trip-hop that is slow-burning, and another handful of cuts are home, occasionally between 100 and 110 beats per minute. Songs include the textbook stomp and classic deep house, and "Faceless Entities," the fastest song, has a rockin' hard feel. Instead of dividing the record into a house-tempo disc and a tempo disc,K3vin envoy alternates between the two modes. The strategy pays, momentum on the album has been achieved.
