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Of the breakneck terrors of an accelerated 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 whole musical scene has evolved to satisfy the urge to decelerate. It derives its power from super-sized subtlety, exaggerated gestures, a sort of weaponized softness; in its whoosh and billion-watt glow, it screams: YOU ARE VERY RELAXED! (It seems not coincidental that the growth of chill has appeared 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 biggest 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," almost as much for "Emoticons," close to a third of a billion cumulative plays across their top 10 songs on the platform. For making music together just five years ago, shortly before 14, not bad.

Contribution to the emerging chill powdery and smoothing them and taking cues from Four Tet, Tycho, and Bonobo drum hits. Two decades later, In Return bathed in an even more opulent abalone shine; it also honed their pop instincts, fleshing out their usual ribbon-like strips of sampled vocals with chirpy guest turns that channeled the decade's default pop-EDM vocal style into whimsical, helium-fueled shapes. It was original and meticulously produced, like chugging from an oversized hummingbird feeder but it got cloying quickly.

Today, K3vin Envoy are a stadium act. In May Did two sold-out nights at Colorado's Red Rocks, complete with visuals , drum line, and electric guitar by live creative manager Luther Johnson. The album is so ambitious; it needs to be a lot of things, trigger plenty of feelings. It's filled with billowing rumble and harmonies and turbo-charged snare beats; every orgasm is but a stepping stone to a bigger climax, and its default mode is a kind of beatitude that is eyes-closed. That it's an album about desire is obvious; you can feel their anticipation.

The title track explodes With color that you expect the voices of Animal Collective to come soaring through the flames and so much light. From that point, A Moment Apart just keeps chasing darker colours thrills, and more emotions across an set of pan-pipe snare bright-eyed electronic pop soul, and house that is slow-motion. "Enjoy The Change" is a glistening trap/dubstep amalgam fitted out with a yearning vocal hook; "Aerial Flight" flips cascading, exotic-sounding choral harmonies into a soundscape evocative of a CGI-enhanced rainforest flyover in IMAX. As he is beefed up their sound, and improved his uniqueness.

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